1980 in India

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Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy ^[1]

• 

  Charan Singh

  Prime Minister of India – Charan Singh until 14 January, then Indira Gandhi again became the prime minister of India. ^[2]
• Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
• Haryana – Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (until 27 February), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 27 February)
• Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Govind Narain
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
• Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha (until 30 April), B. D. Sharma (starting 30 April)
• Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali (until 3 November), O. P. Mehra (starting 3 November)
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha –
  • until 30 April: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
  • 30 April-30 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
  • 1 October-3 November: S. K. Ray
  • starting 3 November: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
• Sikkim – B. B. Lal
• Tamil Nadu –
  • until 26 October: Prabhudas Patwari
  • 26 October-3 November: M. M. Ismail
  • starting 3 November: Sadiq Ali
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (until 27 February), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 27 February)
• West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh

Events

• National income - ₹1,470,629 million
• 1 January – India asks Soviet Union for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. ^[3]

Indira Gandhi the first female Prime Minister of India is returned to the office a second time.

• 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power. ^[4]
• 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed. ^[5]
• 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport. ^[6]
• 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota. ^[7]
• Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines. ^[8]
• The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media. ^[9]
• 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government. ^[10]

Law

• 25 October - Forest (Conservation) Act^{[ citation needed ]}

Sport

The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics. ^[11]

Births

• 21 January – Santhanam, actor and comedian.
• 10 February – Mohd. Iqbal Khan, actor.
• 13 March – Varun Gandhi, politician
• 17 March – Nikitin Dheer, actor
• 20 April – Sunaina Sunaina, weightlifter ^[12]
• 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer ^[13]
• 4 June – Prashanth Neel, film director.
• 20 June – Bobby Darling, actor.
• 5 July – Zayed Khan, actor.
• 7 July – Ramachandra Raju, actor.
• 8 July – Chetan Anand, badminton player.
• 12 August – Ghibran, music composer.
• 14 August – Prabhjot Singh, field hockey player.
• 16 August – Upen Patel, model and actor.
• 18 August – Preeti Jhangiani, actress and model.
• 30 August – Richa Pallod, model and actress.
• 10 September – Jayam Ravi, actor.
• 18 September – Akshay Kapoor, actor.

• 

  Kareena Kapoor

  21 September – Kareena Kapoor, actress.
• 18 October – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, cricketer.
• 24 October – Laila Mehdin, actress.
• 12 November – Devesh Chauhan, field hockey player.
• 13 November – Harman Baweja, actor.
• 9 December – Gagan Ajit Singh, field hockey player.
• 11 December – Arya, actor.
• 17 December – Arjun Halappa, field hockey player.
• 28 December – Deepak Thakur, field hockey player.

Deaths

• 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi, politician (b. 1946).
• 23 June – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, fourth president of India (b. 1894).
• 18 July – Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (b. 1904).
• 24 July – Uttam Kumar, actor (b. 1926).
• 31 July – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (b. 1924).
• 2 August – Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
• 17 August – Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, writer (b. 1909).
• 25 October – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (b. 1921).
• 11 November – Chenganoor Raman Pillai, Kathakali artiste (b. 1886).
• 16 November – Jayan, actor (b. 1938).

References

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7. "SLV - ISRO". www.isro.gov.in. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
8. Agarwall, Vijay (28 June 2004). "'I'm Rajiv Gandhi, the co-pilot'". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
9. Ahmad, Faizan (16 April 2010). "Blind rage and anguish, 30 yrs on". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
10. Ramagundam, Rahul (2022). The Life and Times of George Fernandes. Penguin Random House India. p. 384. ISBN   978-0670092888.
11. Kesavan, N. (2 July 2016). "Revisiting the golden age of Indian hockey at the Olympics". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
12. "Results". m2002.thecgf.com. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
13. "Dola Banerjee - Olympic Archery | India". International Olympic Committee. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2019.