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Historical Event on 6/25/1992

BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1895Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra.
8/29/1923Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur.
6/18/1996CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam.
5/13/1991P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail.
1/20/1992Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
9/16/1997Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
4/6/1930Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement.
1/3/1997Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds.
11/1/1966Haryana state was created from Punjab, and Chandigarh was declared as the Union Territory and capital of both Punjab and Haryana.
4/11/1942All-India Congress party rejects British offer of dominion status at New Delhi.