Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Prime Minister of India – Charan Singh until 14 January, then Indira Gandhi again became the prime minister of India. 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.
14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power. 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed. 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport. 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota. Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines. The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media. 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government.
Law 25 October - Forest (Conservation) Act
Science 1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics
Sport The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics.
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 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer 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. 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).
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