2020 in India

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Events in the year 2020 in India.

Incumbents[edit]

Government of India[edit]

Photo Post Name
Ram Nath Kovind official portrait.jpg President of India Ram Nath Kovind
Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg Vice-President of India

Chairman of Rajya Sabha

Venkaiah Naidu
Shri Narendra Modi.jpg Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
Hon'ble Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde.jpg Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde
Om Birla Member of Parliament Rajasthan India.jpg Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
Media address by Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shri Sunil Arora on 2nd December 2018 (cropped).jpg Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora
Bipin Rawat Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).jpg Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat
Lok Sabha 17th Lok Sabha

State Governments[edit]

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 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
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 Dipankar Datta
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
Punjab V. P. Singh Badnore Amarinder Singh INC Ravi Shankar Jha
Rajasthan Kalyan Singh Ashok Gehlot INC Pradeep Nandrajog
Sikkim Shriniwas Patil Prem Singh Tamang SKM 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 Anandiben Patel 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[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

  • 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.[9][10][11] Hundreds of people lost their lives due to exhaustion and hunger.[12][13]
  • 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.[14]
  • 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.[15]

May[edit]

June[edit]

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

June[edit]

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

See also[edit]

Country overviews[edit]

Related timelines for current period[edit]

References[edit]

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