Today In Indian History (13th February)

1879- Birth of Sarojini Naidu on 13 February in 1879. She was the president of the Indian National Congress in the Kanpur session held in 1925. She became the second woman to preside over the Congress after Annie Besant. She was given the title of "Nightingale of India". 

Sarojini Naidu had participated in the Second Round Table Conference in 1931. Round Table Conferences were convened by the British government between 1930 and 1932 to discuss constitutional reforms in India. 

Sarojini Naidu became the first Governor of United Provinces  in 1947 after Indian Independence and died in office on 2nd March in 1949.  

Today In Indian History (12th February)

1742 - Birth of Nana Phadnavis (also spelt as Nana Fadnavis) on 12th February in 1742. Nana Fadnavis was a brilliant Maratha minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune. He is often referred to as "the Maratha Machiavelli".

1824- Birth of Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj, on 12 February 1824. Arya Samaj was founded in 1875. 

Today In Indian History (11th February)

1750 - Birth of Tilka Majhi on 11th February 1750. Tilka Majhi was a tribal leader and revolutionary who laid down his life in 1785 some 72 years before the First War of Independence in 1857. His place of birth is Tilakpur in Sultanganj in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. 

Tilka Majhi was executed by the British on January 13, 1785. 

Today In Indian History (10th February)

1817- Treaty of Titalia was signed on 10 February in 1817. The Treaty of Titalia was signed between the chogyal (Raja) of the Kingdom of Sikkim and the British East India Company (EIC). Under the terms of the treaty, tract annexed by the Nepalese were ceded to the Raja of Sikkim.

1858 - Death of Raja Bakhtawar Singh on 10th February in 1858. 

Ruler of the princely state of Amjhera in Madhya Pradesh, Raja Bakhtawar Singh is known as a brave leader who unfurled the banner of rebellion against the British during the time of Revolt of 1857. In 1858, he was hanged on a neem tree on the premises of Maharaja Yashwant Hospital in Indore. At the time of his death, he was thirty four years old.

1916 - Death of Sohan Lal Pathak on 10 February 1916. Born in 1883 at Patti (now in Tarn Taran district) in Punjab, Sohan Lal Pathak was a revolutionary who was hanged at the Mandalay Jail in Burma on 10 February 1916 for organizing an uprising against the British. 

Assembly Elections Results of Burari Assembly Constituency

In the 2025 Delhi assembly elections Sanjeev Jha won on behalf of AAP for the third time by defeating JD(U)'s Shailendra Kumar by a margin of 20,601 votes. 

 Contesting Candidates for Burari Assembly Elections 2025    

Party	Candidates	Votes
JD(U)	Shailendra Kumar	100,580
AAP	Sanjeev Jha	121,181
Congress	Mangesh Tyagi	19,920

Burari assembly constituency is one of the ten assembly constituencies that unite to form the parliamentary constituency of North East Delhi which is currently represented by BJP's Manoj Tiwari who won the seat third time in last Lok Sabha elections in 2024.  

Assembly Elections Results of Bijwasan Assembly Constituency

Contesting Candidates for Bijwasan Assembly Elections 2025    

Party	Candidates	Votes
BJP	Kailash Gahlot	64,951
AAP	Surender Bharadwaj	53,675
Congress	Devinder Sehrawat	9,409

Bijwasan is one of the ten assembly constituencies that unite to form the Laok Sabha constituency of South Delhi which is currently represented by BJP's Ramvir Bidhuri who won the seat by defeating his nearest AAP rival Sahiram Pehalwan in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 

Today In Indian History (9th February)

1757 - Treaty of Alinagar was signed on 9 February 1757 between Robert Clive of the British East India Company  and Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, Alinagar was the short-lived name given to Calcutta by the Nawab after it was captured by him in June 1756.

Under the terms of the treaty, Calcutta was restored to the East India Company.