1982 in India

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Events in the year 1982 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy until 25 July, Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
• Assam – Prakash Mehrotra
• Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
• Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru
• Karnataka – Govind Narain (until 15 April), Ashoknath Banerji (starting 15 April)
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam (until 27 October), P. Ramachandran (starting 27 October)
• Madhya Pradesh – B. D. Sharma
• Maharashtra – O. P. Mehra (until 5 March), Idris Hasan Latif (starting 5 March)
• Manipur – S. M. H. Burney
• Meghalaya – Prakash Mehrotra
• Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney
• Odisha –
  • until 24 June: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
  • 25 June-31 August: Ranganath Misra
  • starting 1 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• Punjab – Aminuddin Ahmad Khan (until 21 April), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 21 April)
• Rajasthan – K. D. Sharma (until 6 March), Om Prakash Mehra (starting 6 March)
• Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
• Tamil Nadu – Sadiq Ali (until 6 September), Sundar Lal Khurana (starting 6 September)
• Tripura – S. M. H. Burney
• Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• West Bengal – Bhairab Dutt Pande

Events[]

• April – INSAT-1A launched; deactivated in September.
• July – NABARD establishment

Infamous Events[]

• Gonda Encounter
• Bijon Setu massacre April 30, 1982, 17 Anand Marg people were set ablaze at Bijon Setu in Dhakuria in south Kolkata. No one has been convicted of the murders. ^[1]

Sport[]

• 19 November – 4 December – 9th Asian Games held in Delhi.

Births[]

• 15 January – Neil Nitin Mukesh, actor
• 08 April -Allu Arjun,actor
• 28 April – Koyel Mullick, actress
• 24 May – Kanchi Kaul, actress
• 12 June – Shailaja Pujari, weightlifter^[2]
• 30 June – Allari Naresh, actor
• 03 July – Kanika Subramaniam, actress
• 

  Priyanka Chopra
  18 July – Priyanka Chopra, actress, Miss World 2000
• 28 August – Prasanna, actor
• 11 September – Shriya Saran, actress
• 

  Ranbir Kapoor
  28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor
• 16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor
• 

  Mary Kom
  1 March – Mary Kom, boxer^[3]
• 21 November – Aarti Chhabria, actress and model

Deaths[]

• 11 January – Manya Surve, Indian urban dacoit and gangster in the Mumbai underworld (born 1944).
• 3 August – Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (born 1904).
• 2 October - C.D. Deshmukh, Minister of Finance and first (b.1896)
• 15 November – Vinoba Bhave, freedom fighter and teacher (born 1895).

Full date unknown[]

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (born 1896).

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1982

References[]