Today In Indian History (8th February)

1872- Death of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, the Viceroy of India (1869-72), on 8 February 1872. Lord Mayo, after whom Mayo College in Ajmer is named, was assassinated by Sher Ali Afridi at Port Blair. Afridi was hanged on March 11, 1872. 

1995 - Death of Kalpana Datta on 8 February 1995 (27 July 1913 – 8 February 1995), Also known as Kalpana Joshi, Kalpana Datta was a woman revolutionary from Bengal. She was a member of the Chittagong Republican Army, formed by Surya Sen ( also known as “Masterda”). Chittagong Republican Army carried out the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930.

Assembly Elections Results of Babarpur Assembly Constituency

 Contesting Candidates for Babarpur Assembly Elections 2025     

Party	Candidate
AAP (Won)	Gopal Rai	76192
BJP	Anil Kumar Vashisht	57198
Congress	Mohammad Ishraque	8797

History of Babarpur Assembly Constituency
 

Gopal Rai is the incumbent MLA of Babarpur Assembly Constituency which he had won in 2020 and 2015 on the ticket of AAP. 

Assembly Elections Results of Ambedkar Nagar Assembly Constituency

 Contesting Candidates for Ambedkar Nagar Assembly Elections 2025     

Party	Candidate
AAP (Won)	Ajay Dutt	46285
BJP	Khushiram Chunar	42055
Congress	Jay Prakash	7172

Ambedkar Nagar is one of the ten assembly constituencies that unite to form the South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency which is currently represented by Ramvir Bidhuri of the BJP who claimed the seat in the last parliamentary elections in 2024. 

History of Ambedkar Nagar Assembly Constituency

Ajay Dutt is the incumbent MLA from Ambedkar Nagar assembly constituency. He had won the seat in 2015 and 2020. 

Ashok Kumar, who has later joined the BJP, won in 2013 by defeating his nearest BJP rival Khushi Ram Chunar by a margin of 11670 votes. 

Congress MLA Prem Singh had represented the seat from 1993 to 2013. 

Ambedkar Nagar is one of the twelve assembly constituencies in Delhi which are reserved for the candidates belonging to Scheduled castes. 

Assembly Elections Results of Adarsh Nagar Assembly Constituency

Contesting Candidates for Adarsh Naga Assembly Elections 2025     

Party	Candidate
AAP	Mukesh Kumar Goel	41028
BJP (Won)	Raj Kumar Bhatia	52510
Congress	Shivank Singhal	5460

Adarsh Nagar is one of the ten assembly constituencies that unite to form the parliamentary constituency of Chandni Chowk which is currently represented by Praveen Khandelwal of the BJP who won the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 

History of Adarsh Nagar Assembly Constituency

Ashwani Ahuja, who entered the fray as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), came a distant fourth with 5640 votes. Whereas former UP CM Mayawati led BSP drew a blank in 2013 assembly polls to Delhi, in the previous assembly elections held in 2008, the party had won two seats. 

In 2015 and 2024, Adarsh Nagar, one of the seventy assembly seats in Delhi, was won by AAP's Pawan Kumar Sharma. 

BJP's Ram Kishan Singhal won in 2013 by defeating his nearest rival Jagdeep Rana of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by a margin of 9923 votes. Former Congress minister Mangat Ram, who had been representing the constituency since 1998, was relegated to the third position.  

In 1998 assembly polls, which inaugurated the Sheila Dixit government in Delhi, Adarsh Nagar went in favour of Mangat Ram who emerged victorious by defeating the sitting BJP legislator Jai Parkash Yadav by a huge margin of 19518 votes. 

Jai Parkash Yadav was the winner of the Adarsh Nagar seat in the first elections to the Delhi legislative assembly held in 1993. He claimed the seat by defeating Mangat Ram by a razor thin margin of just 40 votes.

Today In Indian History (7th February)

1942 - Death of revolutionary leader Sachindra Nath Sanyal who was born on 3 June 1893 in Benares, then in North-Western Provinces. He died on 7 February 1942. 

Jailed for his involvement in the Kakori conspiracy, Sanyal was the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA, which after 1928 became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association). 

Today In Indian History (6th February)

1931- Death of Pt. Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931), founder of Swaraj Party or the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party which was formed on 1st January, 1923. Motilal Nehru was the father of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister.  

Today In Indian History (5th February)

2008 - Death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on 5 February 2008. A self-styled Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM), a form of silent meditation.