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Events in the year 2020 in India.

Incumbents

Government of India
Photo Post Name
President of India Ram Nath Kovind
Vice-President of India

Chairman of Rajya Sabha

 Venkaiah Naidu
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde
Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora
Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat
Lok Sabha 17th Lok Sabha

State Governments
State Governor Chief Minister Party Chief Justice
Andhra Pradesh Biswabhusan Harichandan


Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy YSRCP C. Praveen Kumar (Acting)
Arunachal Pradesh B. D. Mishra Pema Khandu BJP Ajit Singh (Gauhati High Court)
Assam Jagdish Mukhi Sarbananda Sonowal BJP Ajit Singh (Gauhati High Court)
Bihar Phagu Chauhan Nitish Kumar JD(U) Rajendra Menon (Patna High Court)
Chhattisgarh Balram Das Tandon Bhupesh Baghel INC T. B Radhakrishnan
Goa Mridula Sinha Pramod Sawant BJP Manjula Chellur
Gujarat Om Prakash Kohli Vijay Rupani BJP R. Subhash Reddy
Haryana Kaptan Singh Solanki Manohar Lal Khattar BJP Ravi Shankar Jha
Himachal Pradesh Acharya Dev Vrat Jai Ram Thakur BJP Sanjay Karol (Acting)
Jammu and Kashmir Girish Chandra Murmu Badar Durrez Ahmed
Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu Hemant Soren JMM Dhirubhai N. Patel (Acting)
Karnataka Vajubhai Vala B.S. Yediyurappa BJP H. G. Ramesh (Acting)
Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan Pinarayi Vijayan CPI(M) Antony Dominic (Acting)
Madhya Pradesh Lalji Tandon Shivraj Singh Chouhan BJP Hemant Gupta
Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari Uddhav Thackeray Shivsena Manjula Chellur
Manipur Najma Heptulla N. Biren Singh BJP N. Kotiswar Singh (Acting)
Meghalaya Ganga Prasad Conrad Sangma NPP Dinesh Maheshwari
Mizoram Nirbhay Sharma Zoramthanga MNF Ajit Singh
Nagaland Padmanabha Acharya Neiphiu Rio NDPP Ajit Singh
Odisha Ganeshi Lal Naveen Patnaik BJD Vineet Saran
Punjab V. P. Singh Badnore Amarinder Singh INC Ravi Shankar Jha
Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Ashok Gehlot INC Pradeep Nandrajog
Sikkim Shriniwas Patil Pawan Kumar Chamling SDF Satish K. Agnihotri
Tamil Nadu Banwarilal Purohit Edappadi K. Palaniswami AIADMK Indira Banerjee
Telangana Tamilisai Soundararajan (Additional charge) K. Chandrashekar Rao TRS T. B Radhakrishnan (Telangana High Court)
Tripura Tathagata Roy Biplab Kumar Deb BJP Tinlianthang Vaiphei
Uttar Pradesh Ram Naik Yogi Adityanath BJP Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul Trivendra Singh Rawat BJP Ramesh Ranganathan
West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar Mamata Banerjee AITC Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan

Events

January

February

March
  • March 20 – Kamal Nath resigned from the post of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, after a political crisis.[5][6]
  • March 22 – Janta Curfew: India observed a 14-hour lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • March 23 –
    • Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath as the Chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
    • Prime Minister Modi announced a 21-day lockdown throughout India until 14 April to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

April
  • India remained under an extended lockdown throughout the month of April, to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

May
  • May 5 – ongoing – Skirmishes between India and China. Several Indian and Chinese soldiers are injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing. About one hundred and fifty soldiers were involved in the face-off which included fistfights and stone-throwing.[7]
  • May 6 – Wanted terrorist Riyaz Naikoo of the terror group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces.
  • May 7 – 13 people are killed from a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.[8]
  • May 20 – Cyclone Amphan hit the eastern part of India.

June
  • June 2-4 – Cyclone Nisarga hit the western coast of India, causing damage in the state of Maharashtra.
  • June 15-16 – 20 personnel of the Indian army including a commanding officer, are killed in action in the ongoing Skirmishes between India and China at LAC in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh.
  • June 17 – India wins a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to begin January 1, 2021 during the 2020 Security Council Elections.[9]
  • June 25 - Indian Railways suspends all passenger train service (except Rajdhani and Migrant Special Trains) till 12th August 2020.
  • June 29 - Indian Government bans 59 Chinese Apps including TikTok, CamScanner, SHAREit and UC Browser due to ongoing Sino-Indian Border tensions.

July

August

Deaths

January
Sunanda Patnaik

February
Tapas Paul

March

April
Rishi Kapoor
Irrfan Khan

May

June
Sushant Singh Rajput

July
Saroj Khan

August
Pandit Jasraj
  • 1 August - Amar Singh, 64, politician (b. 1956)
  • 1 August - Pydikondala Manikyala Rao, 58, politician (b. 1961)[23]
  • 2 August - Kamal Rani Varun, politician, 62, (b. 1958)[24]
  • 2 August - Anupama Pathak, Actress, 40, (b. 1980)
  • 5 August - Shivajirao Nilangekar Patil, Politician, Ex-CM of Maharashtra, 88, (b. 1931)
  • 5 August - Samir Sharma, Television Actor, 44, (b. 1976)
  • 5 August - Anil Rathod, Politician, 70, (b. 1950)
  • 11 August - Rahat Indori, Poet and lyricist, 70, (b. 1950)
  • 16 August - Chetan Chauhan, Cricketer and Politician, 73 (b. 1947)
  • 17 August - Nishikant Kamat, Filmmaker & Actor, (b. 1970)
  • 17 August - Pandit Jasraj, Classical singer, (b. 1930)

See also

Country overviews

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