1993 in India
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Events in the year 1993 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
[edit]- President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma[1]
- Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
- Vice President of India – K. R. Narayanan
- Chief Justice of India – Lalit Mohan Sharma until 11 February, Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah
Governors
[edit]- Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
- Arunachal Pradesh – Surendranath Dwivedy (until 4 July), Madhukar Dighe (4 July-20 October), Mata Prasad (starting 20 October)
- Assam – Loknath Mishra
- Bihar – Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (until 13 August), Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (starting 13 August)
- Goa – Bhanu Prakash Singh
- Gujarat – Sarup Singh
- Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
- Himachal Pradesh –
- until 29 January: Virendra Verma
- 11 February-29 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
- starting 11 February: Gulsher Ahmad
- Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena (until 12 March), K. V. Krishna Rao (starting 12 March)
- Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan
- Kerala – B. Rachaiah
- Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan (until 23 June), Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (starting 23 June)
- Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam (until 9 January), P.C. Alexander (starting 12 January)
- Manipur –
- until 19 March: Chintamani Panigrahi
- 20 March-30 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
- starting 31 August: V. K. Nayar
- Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe
- Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal (until 9 February), P. R. Kyndiah (starting 9 February)
- Nagaland – Loknath Mishra (until 1 October), V. K. Nayar (starting 1 October)
- Odisha –
- until 1 February: Yagya Dutt Sharma
- 1 February-31 May: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
- starting 1 June: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
- Punjab – Surendra Nath
- Rajasthan –
- until 31 May: Marri Chenna Reddy
- 31 May-30 June: Dhanik Lal Mandal
- starting 30 June: Bali Ram Bhagat
- Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
- Tamil Nadu – Bhishma Narain Singh (until 30 May), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 31 May)
- Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (until 14 August), Romesh Bhandari (starting 14 August)
- Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy (until 25 May), Motilal Vora (starting 25 May)
- West Bengal –
- until 12 July: Saiyid Nurul Hasan
- 12 July-14 August: B. Satyanarayan Reddy
- starting 14 August: K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Events
[edit]- National income - ₹8,759,924 million
- 9 March – The All Parties Hurriyat Conference is formed in Kashmir.
- 12 March – 1993 Mumbai blasts: A series of bomb blasts, thought to be planted by underworld figures, rock the country's commercial capital of Bombay, killing some 260 people.[2]
- 9 April – Veerappan Gang Trapped and blew a Tamil Nadu bus carrying police, forest officials and civilians, using a landmine, which killed 22 civilians and police[11] and this incident is known as Palar blast.[3]
- 14 April – Sun TV, a Tamil language television station, as first regular broadcasting service to start in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[citation needed]
- 10 May - Impeachment motion against Justice V. Ramaswami failed in Lok Sabha.[4]
- 24 May - Veerappan and his gang Killed 6 policemen K.M.Uthappa, Prabhakara, Poovaiah, Machaiah, Swamy and Narasappa of STF commander Gopal Hosur's party and injured the police commander near Rangaswamy vaddu, M.M.Hills, Karnataka.
- 3 June - Chief minister of Kerala K. Karunakaran gravely injured following a road accident.
- 21 July - 1993 Kolkata firing
- 29 July - Disappearance of Chekannur Maulavi a reformist. He was allegedly kidnapped and killed and is considered as first act of Islamic terrorism in Malabar Coast post independence.