Indian History

1757 - Treaty of Alinaga r 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. 

    Contesting Candidates for Bawana Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidates     AAP Jai Bhagwan   88,040   BJP Ravinder Kumar (Inderaj)   119,515   Congress Surender Kumar   18,713   Bawana is one of the ten assembly constituencies which come together to create of reserved parliamentary constituency of North West Delhi which is currently represented by BJP’s Yogender Chandoliya who won the seat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Udit Raj by a margin of 2,90,849 votes in last Lok Sabha elections in 2024.    

   Contesting Candidates for Ballimaran Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidates     AAP Imran Hussain   57,004   BJP Kamal Bagri  27,181   Congress Haroon Yusuf   13,059   Ballimaran is one of the ten assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Chandni Chowk which is currently represented by BJP's Praveen Khandelwal who won the seat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Jai Prakash Aggarwal by a margin of 89,325 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.     

  Contesting Candidates for Badli Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidates     BJP Deepak Chaudhary   61,192   AAP Ajesh Yadav  46,029   Congress Devender Yadav   41,071   Badli is one of the ten assembly constituencies which come together to create of reserved parliamentary constituency of North West Delhi which is currently represented by BJP’s Yogender Chandoliya who won the seat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Udit Raj by a margin of 2,90,849 votes in last Lok Sabha elections in 2024.    

 Contesting Candidates for Badarpur Assembly Elections 2025     Party Candidates     AAP (Won) Ram Singh Netaji 112,991     BJP Narayan Dutt Sharma 87,103   Congress Arjun Bhadana 3,145    

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.

 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.