1988 in India

Events in the year 1988 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
Arunachal Pradesh – R. D. Pradhan
Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah, Govind Narain Singh
Goa – Gopal Singh
Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney, Hari Anand Barari
Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
Karnataka – Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
Kerala – P. Ramachandran, Ram Dulari Sinha
Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
Maharashtra – vacant thereafter, Ram Dulari Sinha
Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande, Saiyid Nurul Hasan
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Rajasthan – Sukhdev Prasad
Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana, P. C. Alexander
Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events

National income - 4,293,630 million

January - August

January - Viswanathan Anand became first Grandmaster (chess) from India by winning
2 February - Elections to legislative assemblies of Meghalaya and Tripura held.
9 - 18 May - Operation Black Thunder
2 June - Legendary actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor dies
8 July - Peruman railway accident claims 105 lives.
18 July - Rupan Deol Bajaj case
6 August – The 1988 Myanmar–India earthquake measuring magnitude 7.3 strikes the Sagaing–Assam border, killing 5 people and leaving over 30 injured or missing.
10 August - Chief minister of Karnataka Ramakrishna Hegde resigns following Wiretapping scandal against him.
21 August – The 6.9 Bihar earthquake shook northern Bihar near Nepal with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, killing 709–1,450.
August - The Statesman accuses Lalit Suri, a close confidant of Rajiv Gandhi for accepting 6.61 crore rupees as bribe from Sumitomo Corporation related to HVJ Gas Pipeline works of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation through entities based in London and Panama.

September - December

23-26 September - Floods in Punjab, Haryana due to heavy rains in Bhakra.
October – Maximum lending rate abolished. Banks free to charge customers according to their credit record.
11 October - Janata Dal formed under the leadership of V. P. Singh.
20 December - Rajya Sabha passes the Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India which brings down voting age from 21 to 18.
26 December - caste violence between Kapus and Kammas erupts in costal districts of Andhra Pradesh following death of a Congress I M.L.A named Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao.

Date unknown

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
Shadow of the Almighty Faith Tabernacle Ministries is founded.

Law

April – Security & Exchange Board of India established to deal with the development and regulation of the securities market and investor protection.
The Discount and Finance House of India, set up as a money market institution, commenced operations.
July – The National Housing Bank established as an apex body of housing finance and to promote activities in housing development.
August – Stock Holding Corporation of India, a depository institution, commenced operations.

Births

4 January – Nabila Jamshed, novelist.
25 January – Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.
20 February – Jiah Khan, actress.
5 March – Khonthoujam Boboi Singh, Indian footballer
8 April
*Saqib Saleem, model and actor.
*Nithya Menen, actress.
1 May Anushka Sharma, actress and film producer.
6 May - Rakul Preet Singh, actress
16 May – Vicky Kaushal, actor
6 June - Ajinkya Rahane, cricketer.
15 June - Kriti Kharbanda, actress
10 July - Manjari Fadnis, film actress
26 July Akanksha Puri, actress and model.
21 August Sana Khan, actress and businesswoman.
2 September - Ishant Sharma, cricketer.
6 September – Sargun Mehta, TV actress
12 September – Prachi Desai, actress.
22 September
* Sana Saeed, actress and model.
* Jay Shah, cricket administrator
26 September – Sandhya, film actress
5 November – Virat Kohli, cricketer
25 November – Rochelle Rao, model and anchor.
28 November Yami Gautam, actress.
2 December – Soniya Mehra, actress.
6 December - Ravindra Jadeja, cricketer.
24 December – Piyush Chawla, cricketer.

Deaths

August – Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter
29 October – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter
24 December – Jainendra Kumar, novelist
2 June – Raj Kapoor, actor in Bollywood

Full date unknown

Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic