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Events in the year 2022 in India.

Incumbents[]

National government[]

Photo Post Name
Ram Nath Kovind official portrait.jpg President of India Ram Nath Kovind
Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg Vice-President of India

Chairman of Rajya Sabha

Venkaiah Naidu
Official portrait of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, November 2020 (cropped).jpg Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
Justice N.V. Ramana.jpg Chief Justice of India Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana
Om Birla Member of Parliament Rajasthan India.jpg Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
Sushil Chandra, Election Commissioner of India (cropped).jpg Chief Election Commissioner of India Sushil Chandra
Chief of Defence Staff Vacant (Acting position - Army chief General M M Naravane)
Lok Sabha 17th Lok Sabha

State governments[]

State Governor Chief Minister Party Political Alliance Chief Justice
Andhra Pradesh Biswabhusan Harichandan Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy YSRCP Regional Arup Kumar Goswami
Arunachal Pradesh B. D. Mishra Pema Khandu BJP N.D.A. Sudhanshu Dhulia (Gauhati High Court)
Assam Jagdish Mukhi Himanta Biswa Sarma BJP N.D.A. Sudhanshu Dhulia (Gauhati High Court)
Bihar Phagu Chauhan Nitish Kumar JD(U) N.D.A. Sanjay Karol (Patna High Court)
Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey Bhupesh Baghel INC U.P.A. P. R. Ramachandra Menon
Goa P. S. Sreedharan Pillai Pramod Sawant BJP N.D.A. Dipankar Datta
Gujarat Acharya Dev Vrat Bhupendra Patel BJP N.D.A. Vikram Nath
Haryana Bandaru Dattatreya Manohar Lal Khattar BJP N.D.A. Ravi Shankar Jha
Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur BJP N.D.A. L. Narayana Swamy
Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu Hemant Soren JMM U.P.A. Ravi Ranjan
Karnataka Thawar Chand Gehlot Basavaraj Bommai BJP N.D.A. Ritu Raj Awasthi
Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan Pinarayi Vijayan CPI(M) Regional S. Manikumar
Madhya Pradesh Lalji Tandon Shivraj Singh Chouhan BJP N.D.A. Mohammad Rafiq
Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari Uddhav Thackeray Shivsena U.P.A. Dipankar Datta
Manipur Najma Heptulla N. Biren Singh BJP N.D.A. Ramalingam Sudhakar
Meghalaya Ganga Prasad Conrad Sangma NPP N.D.A. Biswanath Somadder
Mizoram Nirbhay Sharma Zoramthanga MNF N.D.A. Sudhanshu Dhulia
Nagaland Jagdish Mukhi Neiphiu Rio NDPP N.D.A. Sudhanshu Dhulia
Odisha Ganeshi Lal Naveen Patnaik BJD Regional S. Muralidhar
Punjab V. P. Singh Badnore Charanjit Singh Channi INC U.P.A. Ravi Shankar Jha
Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra Ashok Gehlot INC U.P.A. Indrajit Mahanty
Sikkim Shriniwas Patil Prem Singh Tamang SKM N.D.A. Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari
Tamil Nadu R. N. Ravi M. K. Stalin DMK U.P.A.
Telangana Tamilisai Soundararajan K. Chandrashekar Rao TRS Federal Front Hima Kohli
Tripura Tathagata Roy Biplab Kumar Deb BJP N.D.A. Akil Kureshi
Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel Yogi Adityanath BJP N.D.A. Govind Mathur
Uttarakhand Gurmit Singh (general) Pushkar Singh Dhami BJP N.D.A. Raghvendra Singh Chauhan
West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar Mamata Banerjee AITC Federal Front Prakash Shrivastava

Events[]

January[]

  • 1 Jan – Vaishno Devi Temple stampede, Around 2:15 AM in near the Gate No. 3 of Vaishno Devi Temple, due to a scuffle between two groups of pilgrims the place becomes congested and people started suffocating. Due to the melee, 12 people were crushed to death and 16 others injured.[1]
  • 4 Jan –
    • Chief ministers of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Netizens trolled him on Social Media as he is not wearing mask in his political rallies in Chandigarh and Patiala.
    • Vishal Kumar Jha (in Bengaluru) and Shweta Singh (in Uttarakhand) are arrested by the Mumbai Police, in connection with the Bulli Bai app, which targeted women of Muslim Community by putting their doctored images in an online auction.
  • 5 Jan – Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi's convoy stuck in a flyover in Firozpur district following security breach and protests by farmers.[2]
  • 6 Jan –
    • An Indian Digital media platform named The Wire reports existence of a utility called Tek Fog that is used by BJP IT Cell for amplifying propaganda, manipulating public perception on social media and spreading hate.[3][4]
    • Delhi Police arrests a 21 year old Engineering graduate named Neeraj Bishnoi from Jorhat, Assam. He is alleged as the master mind behind creation of an online application called "Bulli Bai" where Muslim women were kept for auction.[5][6]
  • 8 Jan – The Election Commission of India announces the dates for 2022 Legislative Assembly Elections for 5 states. In Uttar Pradesh it will begin on 'February 10', in the states of Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab it will start on February 14 and in Manipur the polling starts February 27.
  • 13 Jan – Maynaguri train accident - A train derailed between New Maynaguri Railway Station and New Domohani Railway Station due to some glitch in locomotive engine, around 5:00 PM in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal. At least nine people are killed.[7]
  • 20 Jan –
    • A family of four believed to be from Gujarat frozen to death near Canada–United States border at Manitoba while allegedly attempting an illegal border crossing to United States.[8]
    • Tableau's of non Bharatiya Janata Party ruling states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha gets rejected by Ministry of Defence from taking part in Republic Day parade sparking controversy.[9]
  • 21 Jan – Amar Jawan Jyoti which was continuously burning since last fifty years at India Gate in commemoration of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was mergered with the eternal flame at the National War Memorial as part of ongoing Central Vista Redevelopment Project.[10][11] On 21 January 2022, the older flame was merged with the newer one at National War Memorial.[11]

February[]

  • 14 February - 2022 Karnataka hijab row The high court's interim order was implemented in all schools and colleges across Karnataka, with students, and in some cases teachers, being asked to remove hijabs and burqas outside the school gates.
India at the Winter Olympics

March[]

  • 9 March - Mian Channu incident
  • 10 March - The elections in five states - Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur and Punjab was won by BJP, BJP BJP, BJP and AAP respectively.
  • 15 March - The Karnataka High Court upheld the Ban on hijabs in schools in the state (During the 2022 Karnataka hijab row) [13] stating that the hijab is not an essential religious practice.[14][15][16]

Deaths[]

January[]

  • 4 – Sindhutai Sapkal, 73, social worker; cardiac arrest
  • 8 – Ramesh Babu, 56, film actor
  • 17 – Birju Maharaj, 83, dancer
  • 18 – Narayan Debnath, 97, cartoonist
  • 22 – Jaswant Singh, 90, field hockey player
    Lata Mangeshkar

February[]

  • 6 – Lata Mangeshkar, 92, singer; multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
  • 15 – Bappi Lahiri, 69, music composer obstructive sleep apnea
  • 15 – Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, 90, legendary Bengali singer, cardiac arrest
  • 12 – Rahul Bajaj, 83, billionaire businessman and CEO of Bajaj Group
  • 21 – Mekapati Goutham Reddy, 50, politician; heart attack

March[]

See also[]

Country overviews[]

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Related timelines for current period[]

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References[]

  1. ^ Khajuria, Sanjay (January 2, 2022). "12 pilgrims die as New Year rush sparks Vaishno Devi stampede". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  2. ^ "India PM Narendra Modi trapped on Punjab flyover in security breach". BBC News. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  3. ^ "Tek Fog: An App With BJP Footprints for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate Trends". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  4. ^ "'Tek Fog' app one of several 'factories' of hate BJP has set up, says Rahul Gandhi". ThePrint. 2022-01-08. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  5. ^ Nath, Hemanta Kumar (January 6, 2022). "Bulli Bai row: Who is Niraj Bishnoi, a 2nd-year engineering student and face behind the app". India Today. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  6. ^ Garg, Ankita (January 10, 2022). "What is Bulli Bai app, what is its link to Sulli Deals, and how GitHub is involved: Story in 10 points". India Today. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  7. ^ "Bikaner-Guwahati Express derails: 5 dead, NDRF teams rushed to spot". www.hindustantimes.com. Hindustan Times. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Two children among Indian family of four found frozen to death near US-Canada border". The Indian Express. 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  9. ^ Suffian, Mohammad (January 20, 2022). "After Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, now Centre rejects Odisha's Republic Day tableau". India Today. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  10. ^ "https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/amar-jawan-jyoti-merge-eternal-flame-national-war-memorial-1902865-2022-01-21". India Today. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  11. ^ a b "Burning for 5 decades, flame at Amar Jawan Jyoti will be put out at India Gate, merged with National War Memorial". Indian Express Limited. 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  12. ^ "Flag bearer at the winter games". indianexpress.com. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  13. ^ "LIVE updates: Karnataka HC upholds Hijab ban". The Siasat Daily. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  14. ^ "Hijab Row Handbook: With HC Verdict, News18 Looks Back at And Beyond The Window Dressing of The Issue". News18. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  15. ^ "India court in Karnataka upholds ban on hijabs in colleges". TheGuardian.com. 15 March 2022.
  16. ^ "India court upholds Karnataka state's ban on hijab in class".
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