Indian History

1483 - Birth of Mughal Emperor Babur on 14 February 1483 .  Zahirudding Muhammad Babur , better known simply today as Babur , who defeated   Ibrahim Lodi   of the Lodi Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate at the   first battle of Panipat   on the 21st April, 1526 , founded the Mughal empire in India.  1556 -  Akbar ascended the Mughal throne at the age of 13 years and 4 months on February 14, 1556. The  brick coronation platform of  Akbar , the known as Takht-i-Akbari, is located at  Kalanaur in  the Gurdaspur district in  Punjab. The brick platform is the place where Akbar’s coronation took place in 1556.  1658 - At the Battle of Bahadurpur near Benares, Shuja, son of  the fifth Mughal emperor  Shah Jahan, was defeated by Sulaiman Shikoh, on 14 February in 1658. Sulaiman Shikoh was the son of Dara Sikoh, eldest son of Shah Jahan.  The Battle of Bahadurpur was part of the fratricidal war of succession...

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 b etween 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 .  

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.  

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.