• Source: 1976 in India

Events in the year 1976 in the Republic of India.




Incumbents


President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray




= Governors

=
Andhra Pradesh –
until 10 January: S. Obul Reddy
10 January-15 June: Mohanlal Sukhadia
starting 15 June: Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
Assam – L. P. Singh
Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
Haryana –
until 26 March: Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
27 March-13 August: Ranjit Singh Narula
starting 13 August: Jaisukh Lal Hathi
Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
Karnataka – Uma Shankar Dikshit
Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo
Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung (until 11 December), vacant thereafter (starting 11 December)
Manipur – L.P. Singh
Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
Nagaland – L.P. Singh
Odisha – Akbar Ali Khan (until 17 April), Shiva Narayan Shankar (starting 17 April)
Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
Sikkim – B. B. Lal
Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah (until 15 June), Mohan Lal Sukhadia (starting 15 June)
Tripura – L. P. Singh
Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias




Events


National income - ₹918,117 million
2 March - The Rajan case, a famous case of Police brutality during the Emergency Period. The victim, P. Rajan, a final year Engineering student at Regional Engineering College, Calicut was arrested by police, taken to Kakkayam and allegedly tortured severely which led to his death. It is believed that his body was thrown into the Kakkayam Dam.
16 April – A family planning initiative involves the vasectomy of thousands of men and tubal ligation of women, either for payment or under coercive conditions. (The minimum age for marriage is also raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.) The son of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, is largely blamed for what turned out to be a failed program. A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues (in part) into the 21st century.
10 June – George Fernandes arrested from Calcutta during the Emergency.
12 October - Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashed in Bombay killing all 95 on board.
15 November – Subramanian Swamy was expelled from Rajya Sabha for his campaign against the Emergency in foreign countries.




Law



The 42nd amendment Act, 1976, was enacted during the Emergency by the Indian National Congress government headed by Indira Gandhi.




Births






= January to June

=
5 February – Abhishek Bachchan, actor.
4 April – Simran Bagga, actress.
9 April – Rohit Gupta, writer and inventor.
9 April – Nithin Sathya, actor.
21 May – Aditi Gowitrikar, model, actress and physician.
9 June – Amisha Patel, actress.
5 June – Rambha, actress.
7 June – Pandiraj, film director.
29 June – Saurabh Kalia, Military officer-KARGIL HERO. (d. 1998).




= July to December

=
20 July – Debashish Mohanty, cricketer.
12 August – Baljit Singh Saini, field hockey player.
3 September – Vivek Oberoi, actor
16 September – Meena, actress.
19 September – Ishaa Koppikar, actress and model.
8 October – Jinnih Beels, Belgian politician
27 October – Pooja Batra, actress.
29 October – Raghava Lawrence, actor, choreographer, director.
14 November – Hemang Badani, cricketer.
15 December – Baichung Bhutia, soccer player.




Deaths


25 January – Swami Anand, Gandhi activist and writer (b. 1887)
2 March - P. Rajan, college student and victim of Police brutality (b. 1954)
28 July – T. Nagi Reddy, communist politician (b. 1917).
27 August – Mukesh, playback singer (b. 1923).
2 September – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (b. 1898).




References






See also


List of Bollywood films of 1976

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