1998 in Kerala
Events in the year 1998 in the Indian state of Kerala.
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Events
- February 28 - Parliament elections for 12th Loksabha held in Kerala.
- March 3 - United Democratic Front bagged 11 out of 20 seats in the Parliament elections.[1]
- March 31 - Peoples Democratic Party leader and Islamic fundamentalist Abdul Nazer Mahdani arrested from Kaloor in connection with 1998 Coimbatore bombings and Hate speech.[2]
- July 30 - An Indian Airlines Dornier aircraft crashed at Kochi during take-off and kills nine people which includes six passengers.[3]
- November - Former Central Reserve Police Force constable Ramachandran Nair confesses before media that deceased Naxalite Arikkad Varghese, was killed in an encounter killing in 1970.[4][5][6]
Deaths
- March 19 - E. M. S. Namboodiripad, former Chief Minister, 88.
- September 9 - Chadayan Govindan, Communist leader, 69.
See also
References
- "General Elections 1998" (PDF).
- "Jacob Thomas reveals why he delayed Abdul Nasser Madani's arrest in 1998". The News Minute. 2017-05-23. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
- "Today in History — July 30, 1998: Indian Airlines plane crashes in Kerala". gulfnews.com. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
- HARIDAS, K (2011). "Varghese Encounter Death Case". Economic and Political Weekly. 46 (1): 19–21. ISSN 0012-9976.
- "Confessions Of A Cop". web.archive.org. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
- Basheer, K. P. M. (2019-03-08). "Remembering Varghese, Kerala's first 'encounter' victim". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
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