National Events of 2014

Dear Readers and Patrons, year 2014 is on the verge of becoming history. We are hereby giving you a list of 14 national events which we think best symbolized this complete year. And why we chose just14 events? Because, 14 symbolized year 2014 for us and many amongst us. We chose 14 events that best represented India in 2014. We hope that this brief summary of 2014 would prove beneficial for all of our readers as it sums-up year 2014 in a nutshell. So happy reading and we await your feedback.1Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister of IndiaThe biggest event of 2014 was undoubtly the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 16th General Elections and emergence of Narendra Modi as the mostpowerful leader in recent times. Modi led the BJP to an unprecedented victory in theelections and gave the country the most stable government in the past three decades. Modi helped the country receivefirst single-party majority in 30 years – and turned politics on its head. BJP won record 282 seats in these elections and almost plundered Congress, as it could win just 44 seats. Narendra Modi wave brought a shockingly high mandate from Uttar Pradesh (UP), where it won as manyas 71 seats on its own out of 80 seats. BJP won 100% seats in Modi’s home state of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The party got handsome gains in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Assam. Narendra Modi defeated AAP’s convener Arvind Kejriwal by a huge margin of around 3 lakh 70 thousand votes in Varanasi constituency. Modi took oath as India’s 15thPrime Minister in a lavish ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on 26 May 2014. Head of states from SAARC countries added weight to his swearing-in ceremony.2Telangana becomes newest state of IndiaFormation of Telangana as the newest State of the Indian Union was another historic and important event of 2014. The stroke of midnight hour on 1-2 June 2014 heralded Telangana’s birth as the 29th state of the Union, ending decades of turbulent struggle for the region in AndhraPradesh. Turning the clock back 57 years when Telugu-speaking Telangana region of Hyderabad was merged with Andhra state in November 1956, a new state of Telangana came into being, capping numerous struggles for statehood. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao took oath as the first Chief Minister of Telangana on 2 June 2014. It became the newest state in India since Jharkhand was established as the 28th state in November 2000.3Mars Mission (MOM) creates history India created history on 24 September 2014 by becoming the first country to successfully send a spacecraft into Mars’ orbit on its very first attempt. The mission executed by country’s space agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) became successful after the first signal of the Mars Orbiter Mission’s (MOM’s) success was confirmed from NASA’s ground station in Canberra, Australia. With this ISRO became the fourth space agency in the world to reach Mars after NASA (US), European Space Agency (Europe) and Roscosmos (Russia). India also became the first Asian country to successfully execute a Mars mission. MOM commenced its journey to the red planet Mars on 5 November 2013 througha launch from the First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, in Andhra Pradesh. The launch was done through ISRO’s reliable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C25 rocket. The MOM finally reached its destination – the Mars orbit on 24 September 2014. The orbiter’s propulsion system, called the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM), erupted into life at 7.17 a.m. after remaining dormant for 300 days during the spacecraft’s journey to the Red Planet.With this the orbit entered into most crucial manoeuvre called Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI). This meant for lowering the spacecraft into the Martian orbit, with a peri-apsis of 423 km and an apo-apsis of 80,000 km. The manoeuvre ended successfully at 7.41 a.m., thus enabling India to make history.