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Historical Event on 7/31/1997

Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
5/11/1993Toy factory fire kills over 200 people in Bangalore.
1/31/1997Merger of SCICI and ICICI confirmed with effect from 1/4/1996.
4/28/1848Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
4/26/1973Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977.
4/6/1606Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
7/5/1905Lord Curzon joined the part of Bengal to Asam and divided Bengal.
9/20/1940Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.
11/8/1947Junagadh accedes to India. Addresses A.I.C.C.