1991 in India

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Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao

Events

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: The stone mosaic that stands at the exact location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur

• 21 May - Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a LTTE Suicide Bomber in Sriperumbudur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu during the election campaign.
• 31 May - The Government of India constitutes the Company Law Board as an independent quasi-judicial body thus giving up direct control on matters of company law.
• 15 June - When the general election results are all compiled, the Congress Party has won a plurality of votes.
• 21 June - Indian National Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister.
• 24 June - J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
• 24 July - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
• 11 October - Sikh Separatists bomb Hindu Procession in Lucknow, killing 41 people.
• 11 December - Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.

Deaths

• 15 May - Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (born 1901).
• 24 October - Ismat Chughtai, writer (born 1915).

Full date unknown

• Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar, writer (born 1904).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1991