When the foundation stone of the Ram temple reached the height of religious delight, sometimes the dread of Corona and sometimes the Tablighi Jamaat were in the discussion. Meanwhile, the pain of migrants walking for hundreds of kilometers will remain unbroken. Actually, the year 2020 is now ready to take off. Now it will remain just a number, but the events that have taken place during the last 365 days are rarely forgotten. In this report, we are faced with 20 such incidents, which made us laugh and cry during 2020 ...
The year 2020 started with opposition from the CAA and NRC, but by February, the heat soared that Delhi was engulfed by it. Actually, riots continued in the northeastern part of Delhi from 23 February to 29 February. During this period, 53 people lost their lives, while hundreds were injured. Meanwhile, hundreds of women sat on the road in Shaheen Bagh for months against the CAA and NRC amid the harsh winter.
To overcome the heat of the Delhi riots, the country was resorting to the colors of Holi that the Coronavirus, which has become synonymous with fear all over the world, started wreaking havoc in India as well. Although Corona cases were reported in the country only during January 2020, the first death was recorded in Karnataka on 17 March. After this, India was also caught in the bloody claws of Corona and till now more than one crore people in the country have been caught by this dreadful virus. At the same time, about one and a half million people have lost their lives.
People who have an account in Yes Bank can hardly forget this incident. In fact, in the 20th century, there was a strange case of a sudden collapse of a big private bank and cropping of crores of people in it. In the early week of March 2020, RBI imposed restrictions on Yes Bank. Under this, customers could not withdraw more than Rs 50 thousand a month from their own account. In fact, such restrictions were also imposed on PMC Bank, but the number of people affected by it was much less than that of Yes Bank. The impact of the RBI ban was such that the share price of Yes Bank had reached five rupees.
To save the country from the clutches of Corona, it took a full lockdown of 21 days from March 25. During that time, normal life along with trains, buses, and airplanes came to an end. But during this period, the country saw such a painful sight, which was seen earlier only during the partition of India-Pakistan in 1947. Actually, thousands of people living in Delhi-Mumbai started going to their homes on foot without having any means. During that time the government neither tried to convince those people nor any help from them. On May 8, the accident of passing a goods train on 16 laborers sleeping on the railway track in Aurangabad, Maharashtra added to this pain.
20 March 2020 will always be remembered as the date of justice in the country's history. In fact, on the same day, the four convicts of Nirbhaya, Pawan, Mukesh, Akshay, and Vinay, were hanged on the gallows in Tihar Jail number three and were recorded on that dreadful night of 16 December 2012 about seven years ago.
During the year 2020, there were many vicissitudes in the world of politics. These include the fall of the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh and Shivraj Singh becoming Chief Minister for the fourth time. In fact, 22 supporters of Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned, following which the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh came in a minority and Kamal Nath resigned as Chief Minister on 20 March. Shivraj Singh was sworn in as Chief Minister on 23 March.
The country battling Corona shook the storm of the storm in the Bay of Bengal. During this period, the eastern part of the country, West Bengal suffered a lot of damage. Seeing the magnitude of the storm, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee even described it as dangerous than the corona epidemic. West Bengal suffered a loss of $ 13.9 billion due to the Amfan storm. During that time around 30 thousand houses collapsed while standing crops in 88 thousand hectares were destroyed.
In the eastern part of the country, the storm of Amfan wreaked havoc, while the locusts from Pakistan attacked the northern areas. These locust groups destroyed hundreds of acres of crops in several states including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
On the night of 15-16 June, there were violent clashes between the soldiers of India and China on the Ladakh border, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed. About 40 Chinese soldiers were killed in this incident, but China did not confirm this. Actually, the dispute started on the night of 5 and 6 May. Gradually the situation continued to deteriorate and violent clashes took place on the night of 15–16 June. In this case, India imposed strict restrictions on China and banned about 100 Chinese applications. Also, opposition to China's goods started in the country, due to which China has lost millions of dollars so far. Despite this, the situation on the border has not been normalized yet.
India also received good news amidst Corona, Amfan storm, and a dispute with China. Indeed, during June 2020, India was elected as a temporary member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 8th time. During this period, out of 192 votes, 184 were voted in favor of India.