2021 in India

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Events in the year 2021 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	Arup Kumar Goswami
Arunachal Pradesh	B. D. Mishra	Pema Khandu	BJP	Sudhanshu Dhulia (Gauhati High Court)
Assam	Jagdish Mukhi	Sarbananda Sonowal	BJP	Sudhanshu Dhulia (Gauhati High Court)
Bihar	Phagu Chauhan	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)	Sanjay Karol (Patna High Court)
Chhattisgarh	Anusuiya Uikey	Bhupesh Baghel	INC	P. R. Ramachandra Menon
Goa	Mridula Sinha	Pramod Sawant	BJP	Dipankar Datta
Gujarat	Om Prakash Kohli	Vijay Rupani	BJP	Vikram Nath
Haryana	Kaptan Singh Solanki	Manohar Lal Khattar	BJP	Ravi Shankar Jha
Himachal Pradesh	Acharya Dev Vrat	Jai Ram Thakur	BJP	L. Narayana Swamy
Jammu and Kashmir	Manoj Sinha			Pankaj Mithal
Jharkhand	Draupadi Murmu	Hemant Soren	JMM	Ravi Ranjan
Karnataka	Vajubhai Vala	B.S. Yediyurappa	BJP	Abhay Shreeniwas Oka
Kerala	Arif Mohammad Khan	Pinarayi Vijayan	CPI(M)	S. Manikumar
Madhya Pradesh	Lalji Tandon	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	BJP	Mohammad Rafiq
Maharashtra	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Uddhav Thackeray	Shivsena	Dipankar Datta
Manipur	Najma Heptulla	N. Biren Singh	BJP	Ramalingam Sudhakar
Meghalaya	Ganga Prasad	Conrad Sangma	NPP	Biswanath Somadder
Mizoram	Nirbhay Sharma	Zoramthanga	MNF	Sudhanshu Dhulia
Nagaland	Padmanabha Acharya	Neiphiu Rio	NDPP	Sudhanshu Dhulia
Odisha	Ganeshi Lal	Naveen Patnaik	BJD	S. Muralidhar
Punjab	V. P. Singh Badnore	Amarinder Singh	INC	Ravi Shankar Jha
Rajasthan	Kalyan Singh	Ashok Gehlot	INC	Indrajit Mahanty
Sikkim	Shriniwas Patil	Prem Singh Tamang	SKM	Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari
Tamil Nadu	Banwarilal Purohit	Edappadi K. Palaniswami	AIADMK	Sanjib Banerjee
Telangana	Tamilisai Soundararajan	K. Chandrashekar Rao	TRS	Hima Kohli
Tripura	Tathagata Roy	Biplab Kumar Deb	BJP	Akil Kureshi
Uttar Pradesh	Anandiben Patel	Yogi Adityanath	BJP	Govind Mathur
Uttarakhand	Krishan Kant Paul	Trivendra Singh Rawat	BJP	Ramesh Ranganathan
West Bengal	Jagdeep Dhankhar	Mamata Banerjee	AITC	T. B. Radhakrishnan

Events

January

• 1 January – India begins its two-year tenure (2021-22) as non-permanent member of UNSC.[1]
• 3 January – India approves the two coronavirus vaccines from Bharat Biotech - "Covaxin" and Oxford/AstraZeneca - "Covishield" for the emergency use[2][3]
• 4 January - Instant messaging app WhatsApp announced new amendment in their privacy policies and data sharing norms. This led to massive outrage against the app and exodus to alternative applications by users in India.[4] The announcement that, WhatsApp will share data with their parent company Facebook led to a surge in user base of applications like Signal.[5]
• 12 January - The Supreme Court issues a stay order thereby suspending the implementation of the three new farm laws in the wake of the ongoing farmer protests.[6][7]
• 15 January - The chat transcripts between journalist Arnab Goswami and BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta got leaked in Social media.[8] The chats carried explosive revelation relating to 2019 Balakot airstrike,[9] dilution of Article 370, 2019 elections in India etc. and derogatory/offensive remarks against various prominent individuals like Kangana Ranaut,[10] Navika Kumar[11] etc. The leaked chats pointed to severe violations of Official Secrets Act,[12] following due process of law [13] and Media ethics.[14][15] The CEO of BARC was arrested following this in relation to TRP scam.[16] The event earned sobriquet Arnab Gate among wide section of social media.[17]
• 16 January- The Indian Government begins a mass Vaccination campaign for COVID-19. The vaccine for curing COVID-19 is prepared by Bharat Biotech
• 21 January
  • 2021 Pune fire
  • 2021 Shivamogga explosion
• 26 January - The 72nd Republic Day Parade took place in New Delhi. There was no foreign head of state as chief guest this time due to COVID-19 pandemic. The Prime Minister of United Kingdom Boris Johnson was planned as guest but he cancelled the schedule due to pandemic.[18] The event took place with a reduced spectator size than usual and there were air show by Rafale jets.[19] There was a massive Tractor Rally that took place in Delhi as part of farmers' protest against new farm bills.[20][21][22] There were ensuing violence and serious law and order situation that followed the rally and it is alleged that an illegal flag hoisting that took place in Red Fort by Deep Sidhu.[23][24] There were massive crack down by security agencies on Farmers, Journalists etc.[25] followed with internet shutdowns in Delhi[26][27]
• 7 February - 2021 Uttarakhand glacier burst

Deaths

January

• 2
  • Buta Singh, 86, Indian politician, Minister of Home Affairs (1986–1989), Governor of Bihar (2004–2006) and Chairman of NCSC (2007–2010), cerebral haemorrhage.[28]
  • Neelamperoor Madhusoodanan Nair, 84, Indian poet.[29]
  • K. Balu, Indian film producer (Chinna Thambi, Uthama Raasa, Jallikattu Kaalai), complications from COVID-19.[30]

• 3
  • Shani Mahadevappa, 90, Indian actor (Shankar Guru, Kaviratna Kalidasa, Guru Brahma), coronary artery disease.[31]
  • Anil Panachooran, 55, Indian lyricist (Arabikkatha, Drona 2010, Marykkundoru Kunjaadu) and poet, COVID-19.[32]
  • Shaji Pandavath, 63, Indian screenwriter and film director, complications from heart surgery and a fall.[33]

• 5
  • A. Madhavan, 86, Indian writer.[34]
  • Vennelakanti, 63, Indian lyricist (Murali Krishnudu, Gharana Bullodu, Pellaina Kothalo), cardiac arrest.[35]

See also

Country overviews

• India
• History of India
• History of modern India
• Outline of India
• Government of India
• Politics of India
• Timeline of Indian history
• Years in India

Related timelines for current period

• 2021
• 2021 in politics and government
• 2020s

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28. Former Union minister and Congress leader Buta Singh passes away
29. കവി നീലമ്പേരൂര്‍ മധുസൂദനന്‍ നായര്‍ അന്തരിച്ചു (in Malayalam)
30. Popular producer KB Films Balu passes away
31. ಕೊರೊನಾ ಸೋಂಕಿನಿಂದ ಚಂದನವನದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಕಲಾವಿದ ಶನಿ ಮಹದೇವಪ್ಪ ವಿಧಿವಶ (in Kannada)
32. Anil Panachooran Passes away
33. Malayalam film director dead
34. ആ മാധവൻ അന്തരിച്ചു (in Tamil)
35. Lyricist Vennelakanti passes away