# 1969 in India

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Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Zakir Husain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July (acting president), Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August (acting president), V. V. Giri
* Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
* Vice President of India – V. V. Giri until 3 May; Gopal Swarup Pathak
* Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
* Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
* Bihar – Nityanand Kanungo
* Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
* Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
* Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
* Karnataka – Gopal Swarup Pathak (until 30 August), vacant thereafter (starting 30 August)
* Kerala – V. Viswanathan
* Madhya Pradesh – K. Chengalaraya Reddy
* Maharashtra – P V Cherian (until 8 November), vacant thereafter (starting 8 November)
* Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
* Odisha – Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
* Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
* Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh
* Tamil Nadu – Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 14 January)
* Uttar Pradesh – Bezawada Gopala Reddy
* West Bengal –
** until 1 April: Dharma Vira
** 1 April-19 September: Deep Narayan Sinha
** starting 19 September: Shanti Swaroop Dhavan

## Events

* National income - ₹438,360 million
* 14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law.
* 1 March - The first Rajdhani Express commenced it's journey between Delhi and Howrah.
* 12 July – Congress Parliamentary Board at Bangalore nominated Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as Congress's candidate for the post of President of India by a vote of four to two.
* 19 July – Morarji Desai resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of India.
* 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots
* 12 November – Congress Working Committee headed by S. Nijalingappa removed Indira Gandhi from primary membership of Congress Party.
* Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
* Rajdhani Express was introduced
* 14 banks nationalized
* Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was set up
* Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) came into existence (10 March 1969)

## Law

* Registration of Births and Death Act ( RBD Act)

## Births

* 24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army. (died 1999).
* 2 April – Ajay Devgan, actor and producer.
* 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
* 24 August – Mukesh Tiwari, actor.
* 4 November – Rupini, actress.
* 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
* 25 November – Sukanya, actress and dancer.
* Viswanathan Anand11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

### Full date unknown

* Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.
* M. Yoganathan, environmental activist.

## Deaths

* 27 January – Anukulchandra Chakravarty, social reformer and philanthropist (born 1888)
* 31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (born 1894).
* 23 February – Madhubala, actress (born 1933).
* 3 May – Zakir Husain, politician and third President of India (born 1897).
* 13 June – Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement (born 1898).
* 28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (born 1920).