1980 in India explained

Events in the year 1980 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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

• 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

Science

• 1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics

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.
• 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).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Former Presidents - The President of India . presidentofindia.nic.in . en . 2017-05-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141016060850/http://presidentofindia.nic.in/former-presidents.htm . 16 October 2014 .
2. News: List of Indian Prime ministers till now. 2014-04-16. My India. 2017-05-17. en.
3. Web site: 2020-01-01. Forty Years Ago, January 1, 1980: Crucial battle in UP. 2022-01-12. The Indian Express. en.
4. News: Assassination in India: A Leader of Will and Force; Indira Gandhi, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India. Charlton. Linda. 1 November 1984. The New York Times. 17 May 2017.
5. Web site: 26 December 2005 . India in 1982: Major events and happenings . 2022-04-28 . India Today . en.
6. News: Sanjay Gandhi dies in a dramatic plane crash, his passing to leave a political vacuum. Sethi. Sunil. 22 January 2014. India Today. 2017-05-17.
7. Web site: SLV - ISRO. 2022-01-12. www.isro.gov.in. 11 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191211145605/https://www.isro.gov.in/launchers/slv. dead.
8. News: 'I'm Rajiv Gandhi, the co-pilot'. Agarwall. Vijay. 28 June 2004. The Times of India. 17 May 2017.
9. News: Blind rage and anguish, 30 yrs on . 16 April 2010. The Times of India. Faizan. Ahmad. 19 January 2019.
10. Book: Ramagundam, Rahul . The Life and Times of George Fernandes . Penguin Random House India . 2022 . 978-0670092888 . 384 . en.
11. News: Revisiting the golden age of Indian hockey at the Olympics. Kesavan. N.. 2 July 2016. The Hindu. 17 May 2017.
12. Web site: Results . m2002.thecgf.com . 7 May 2020.
13. Web site: Dola Banerjee - Olympic Archery India . International Olympic Committee . 23 April 2019 . en . 19 June 2016.