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Historical Event on 8/3/1993

Government assures Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member election commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1998Pramod Mahajan, senior BJP functionary, is appointed Political Advisor to Prime Minister ""in the rank and status of Cabinet Minister in the PMO"".
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.
9/5/1872V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu.
7/13/1905Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
10/30/1947The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan.
11/29/1996Shaleem I. Shervani, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and President, ICMR Governing Body, was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony of the year long celebrations of the 85th year of ICMR at New Delhi. He released a special issue of the ICMR Bulletin on this occasion and presented momentos to the former Additional Directors-General and Directors-General of the ICMR.
4/18/1970Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy.
4/15/1950Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'.