2020 in India

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2020
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India

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Events in the year 2020 in India.

Incumbents

Government of India

Photo Post Name
President of India Ram Nath Kovind
Vice-President of India

Chairman of Rajya Sabha

Venkaiah Naidu
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
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 BRS 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 Pushkar Singh Dhami BJP Ramesh Ranganathan
West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar Mamata Banerjee
AITC
Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan

Events

Deaths

January

Sunanda Patnaik

February

March

April

Irrfan Khan
Rishi Kapoor

May

Ravi Zacharias

June

Sushant Singh Rajput

July

Saroj Khan

August

Jasraj
Pranab Mukherjee
Rahat Indori

September

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Jaswant Singh

October

November

December

See also

Country overviews

Related timelines for current period

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