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Historical Event on 10/17/1995

BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/15/1946Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India.
8/15/1994Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies.
6/18/1997E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican.
4/15/1984Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India.
5/31/1996J. H. Patel sworn in Karnataka CM.
7/7/1948Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established.
9/29/1994Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic.
2/14/1924Ikramullah (Ikram Sagri) Khan, famous Hindi poet, was born at Rehli in Madhya Pradesh.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.
1/5/1941Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi jr., Indian batsman & youngest Indian Test Captain), was born in Bhopal.