2020 in India

Events in the year 2020 in India.

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Incumbents

Government of India
Photo Post Name

President of India Ram Nath Kovind

Vice-President of India
Venkaiah Naidu
Chairman of Rajya Sabha

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

Biswabhusan Harichandan
Andhra Y.S. Jagan C. Praveen Kumar
YSRCP
Pradesh Mohan Reddy (Acting)

Arunachal Ajit Singh (Gauhati High

B. D. Mishra Pema Khandu BJP
Pradesh Court)

Sarbananda Ajit Singh (Gauhati High

Assam Jagdish Mukhi BJP
Sonowal Court)

Rajendra Menon (Patna

Bihar Phagu Chauhan Nitish Kumar JD(U)
High Court)

Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey Bhupesh Baghel INC T. B Radhakrishnan

Goa Mridula Sinha Pramod Sawant BJP Manjula Chellur

Gujarat Om Prakash Kohli Vijay Rupani BJP R. Subhash Reddy

Manohar Lal
Haryana Kaptan Singh Solanki BJP Ravi Shankar Jha
Khattar

Himachal
Acharya Dev Vrat Jai Ram Thakur BJP Sanjay Karol (Acting)
Pradesh

Jammu and
Girish Chandra Murmu Badar Durrez Ahmed
Kashmir

Dhirubhai N. Patel
Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu Hemant Soren JMM
(Acting)

B.S.
Karnataka Vajubhai Vala BJP H. G. Ramesh (Acting)
Yediyurappa

Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan Pinarayi Vijayan CPI(M) Antony Dominic (Acting)

Madhya Shivraj Singh

Lalji Tandon BJP Hemant Gupta
Pradesh Chouhan

Uddhav
Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari Shivsena Dipankar Datta
Thackeray

Manipur Najma Heptulla N. Biren Singh BJP N. Kotiswar Singh (Acting)

Meghalaya Ganga Prasad Conrad Sangma NPP Biswanath Somadder

Mizoram Nirbhay Sharma Zoramthanga MNF Ajit Singh

Nagaland Padmanabha Acharya Neiphiu Rio NDPP Ajit Singh

Odisha Ganeshi Lal Naveen Patnaik BJD Vineet Saran

Amarinder
Punjab V. P. Singh Badnore INC Ravi Shankar Jha
Singh

Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Ashok Gehlot INC Pradeep Nandrajog

Prem Singh
Sikkim Shriniwas Patil SKM Satish K. Agnihotri
Tamang

Edappadi K.
Tamil Nadu Banwarilal Purohit AIADMK Indira Banerjee
Palaniswami

K.
Tamilisai Soundararajan T. B Radhakrishnan
Telangana Chandrashekar TRS
(Additional charge) (Telangana High Court)
Rao

Biplab Kumar
Tripura Tathagata Roy BJP Tinlianthang Vaiphei
Deb

Uttar
Anandiben Patel Yogi Adityanath BJP Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
Pradesh

Pushkar Singh
Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul BJP Ramesh Ranganathan
Dhami

Mamata Thottathil B.
West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar AITC
Banerjee Radhakrishnan

Events

January
11 January – Bombay High Court stayed a Sessions Court order by Sessions Judge Dinesh
Eknath Kothalikar made on Nov 2019 which restored criminal case against Adani Enterprises,
its chairman Gautam Adani and managing director Rajesh Adani for carrying out share rigging
in connivance with Ketan Parekh in 1999 - 2001 period.[1][2]

27 January – Agreement signed between the Government of India, the Assam Government
and the Bodo groups to redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in
Assam.[3]
 30 January – The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to India on 30 January
2020 from China. The 1st case of COVID-19 was spotted in Kerala, India.

February
8 February – Polling for the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections was held.

11 February – 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election's results announced with Aam Aadmi
Party securing 62 of 70 seats to claim an absolute majority in the elections.

23 – 29 February – At least 53 people were killed in communal riots in parts of Delhi.[4]

24 – 25 February – U.S. President Donald Trump visited India for a two-day state visit,
addressed a "Namaste (Welcome) Trump" event with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in
Ahmedabad. Toured Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram and the Taj Mahal at Agra.[5]
Received a formal welcome from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan
Presidential Palace in New Delhi. Conducted a series of meetings with Prime minister Modi
and other government officials, as well as Indian business executives.[6][7]

March
20 March – Kamal Nath resigned from the post of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, after
a political crisis.[8][9]

22 March – Janata Curfew: India observed a 14-hour lockdown to prevent the spread of the
COVID-19 pandemic.

23 March – Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

23 March – Maoist attack in Sukma kills 17 paramilitary personnel.

24 March – Prime Minister Modi announced a 21-day lockdown throughout India from
midnight of 25 March to 14 April to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

31 March – Sudden spike in COVID-19 cases, with hundreds of cases linked with people who
attended Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi.[10]

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

Thousands of inter-state migrant workers were rendered jobless and penniless, causing them
to walk thousands of kilometres from state to state due to lack of availability of transport
because of the lockdown.[11][12][13] Hundreds of people lost their lives due to exhaustion and
hunger.[14][15]
 4 April – An FIR was registered against an unknown person in Gujarat for placing an online
advertisement to "sell" the Statue of Unity for ₹30,000 crore.[16]

16 April – 2020 Palghar mob lynching.

18 April – Seven IITs have announced plans to boycott the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings this year ostensibly because they are not convinced “about the
parameters and transparency” of the ranking agency's process, according to a joint statement
issued by the directors of the IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras
(Chennai) and Roorkee.[17]

May
5 May – Skirmishes began 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.[18]

6 May – Wanted terrorist Riyaz Naikoo of the terror group Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, killed in a gun
battle with Indian security forces.

7 May – 13 people were killed from a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh.[19]

20 May – Cyclone Amphan hit the eastern part of India and lead to flood like situation in many
South-eastern states.

27 May – A petroleum gas and oil leak occurred in Indian Oil's Baghjan Oilfield, in Assam.

27 May – A pregnant elephant died after eating a pineapple filled with firecrackers, in
Palakkad, Kerala.[20]

June
2–4 June – Cyclone Nisarga hit the western coast of India, causing damage in the state of
Maharashtra.

5 June- The President of India promulgates three ordinances related to agriculture, which
would be later proposed as a bill and consequently passed as an act.[21]

14 June - Bollywood Star Sushant Singh Rajput found dead at his Bandra Residence in
Mumbai.

15–16 June – 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.
 17 June – India wins a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to begin 1
January 2021 during the 2020 Security Council Elections.[22]

25 June – Indian Railways suspends all passenger train service (except Rajdhani and Migrant
Special Trains) until 12 August 2020.

29 June – Indian Government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, CamScanner, SHAREit
and UC Browser due to the ongoing Sino-Indian Border tensions.

July
3 July – 8 Policemen of the Uttar Pradesh police are martyred in an encounter with the gang
of the wanted criminal Vikas Dubey in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state.

3 July – Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a visit to Nimu Post near the Indo-China border
in Ladakh along with Army Chief Manoj Mukund Naravane and CDS Bipin Rawat amid ongoing
India-China border tensions.

5 July – CRPF convoy is attacked by terrorist which results in martyr of 1 CRPF soldier in
Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.

5 July – Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 on Richter scale hits Kargill in Ladakh.

10 July – Wanted Criminal Vikas Dubey encountered.

17 July – Number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 1 million.[23]

21 July – ongoing – Floods in Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam.

29 July – National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), a new policy on education in India
approved by the Union Cabinet.

29 July – 2020 Punjab alcohol poisoning. At least 121 people died after drinking toxic,
illegally-made alcohol in Punjab.

August
5 August – Narendra Modi performed Bhoomi Pujan and laid the foundation stone of the Ram
Temple at Ayodhya.

7 August – Air India Express Flight 1344 Crashed after overrunning the Runway at Calicut
International Airport, Kerala. At least 19 people killed, including two pilots and 17 Passengers.

7 August – Heavy Landslide in Munnar, Idukki District, Kerala: 24 killed, 40 trapped; NDRF
teams carry out rescue ops
 9 August – Fire at a COVID-19 facility in the city of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, killed 11
people and left 22 injured.[24][25][26]

9 August – Indian Farmers' Protest was started against three farm acts.

11 August – Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises Nitin Gadkari, has unveiled a microwave device that can disinfect premises in just
30 seconds named ‘Atulya’.[27]

11 August – 3 killed and many arrested following the riots in Bangalore over a controversial
Facebook post on Islam's prophet Muhammad by a nephew of Congress politician.

15 August – MS Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket.[28][29][30]

20 August – A major fire broke out in an underground hydroelectric power plant in Srisailam in
the state of Telangana killing 9 people.[31][32]

31 August - National Statistical Office releases data for the first quarter of Financial Year
2020–2021, with GDP in the given period contracting by 23.9% due to the COVID-19 pandemic
lockdown in India.[33]

September
3 September – 118 Chinese apps including PUBG Video Game app banned.[34]

11 September – Retired Navy officer Madan Sharma beaten up for forwarding cartoon on
Uddhav Thackeray; four arrested.[35]

14 September - Three Bills on agriculture reforms introduced in the Parliament to replace the
ordinances issued during the lockdown on June 5.[36]

30 September - The court acquitted all the 32 accused of the Demolition of the Babri Masjid
including L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar and several others in
the case on account of inconclusive evidence.[37] The special court judge said "“The
demolition was not pre-planned.”[38][39]

October
10 October – Goa declared first 'Har Ghar Jal' State by the Jal Shakti Ministry.[40]

31 October - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that a law to curb 'Love
Jihad' would be passed by his government.

November
24 November - The Uttar Pradesh state cabinet cleared the ordinance of the Uttar Pradesh
Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance on 24 November 2020 following which
 it was approved and signed by state Governor Anandiben Patel on 28 November 2020.[41][42]

December
5 December - An idiopathic disease broke out in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. On 20 December,
AIIMS and NEERI Research Institute came to a conclusion that pesticides leaching into the
water supply is the most likely reason.[43][44][45][46]

December - Madhya Pradesh government approved an anti conversion bill similar to the Uttar
Pradesh one.[47][48][49][50]

30 December -
The Assam government passed a law converting its 700 state-run Islamic schools into
regular schools.[51][52][53][54]

India's first metallic Monolith appears in Symphony Forest Park, Ahmedabad. The
monolith was installed by the private company that is managing the park.[55][56]

Deaths

January

Sunanda Patnaik

2 January
Daitari Behera, politician (b. 1938).[57]

D. P. Tripathi, politician (b. 1954).[58]

3 January
M. Sakthivel Murugan, politician.[59]

Rameshwar Prasad, politician (b. c. 1930s).[60]