List of presidents of India

The president of India is the head of state of the Republic of India and the supreme commander of the Indian Armed Forces. The president is referred to as the first citizen of India.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="constitution">Template:Cite web</ref> Although vested with these powers by the Constitution of India, the position is largely a ceremonial one and executive powers are de facto exercised by the prime minister.<ref name="bbc patil">Template:Cite news</ref>

The president is elected by the Electoral College composed of elected members of the parliament houses, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and also members of the Vidhan Sabha, the state legislative assemblies.<ref name="constitution" /> Presidents may remain in office for a tenure of five years, as stated by article 56, part V, of the Constitution of India. In the case where a president's term of office is terminated early or during the absence of the president, the vice president assumes office. By article 70 of part V, the parliament may decide how to discharge the functions of the president where this is not possible, or in any other unexpected contingency.

There have been 15 presidents of India since the post was established when India was declared as a republic with the adoption of the Indian constitution in 1950.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Apart from these fifteen, three acting presidents have also been in office for short periods of time. V. V. Giri became the acting president in 1969 after Zakir Husain died in office. Giri was elected president a few months later. He remains the only person to have held office both as a president and acting president. Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India, is the only person to have held office for two terms.<ref name="selecting next">Template:Cite news</ref>

Seven presidents have been members of a political party before being elected. Six of these were active party members of the Indian National Congress. The Janata Party has had one member, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who later became president. Two presidents, Zakir Husain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, have died in office. Their vice presidents served as acting presidents until a new president was elected. Following Zakir Husain's death, two acting presidents held office until the new president, V. V. Giri, was elected. When Giri resigned to take part in the presidential elections, he was succeeded by Mohammad Hidayatullah as acting president.<ref name="resign">Template:Cite web</ref> Pratibha Patil is the first woman to hold the office, elected in 2007.

On 25 July 2022, Droupadi Murmu took office as the president of India, becoming the second woman and the first tribal person to hold the office.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

List

This list is numbered based on presidents elected after winning an Indian presidential election. The terms of V. V. Giri, Mohammad Hidayatullah and B. D. Jatti, who served as acting president are therefore not numbered or counted as actual terms in office. The president of India does not represent any political party.

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#	Portrait	Name	Term of office<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>			Election	Vice president	Party
1	Rajendra Prasad	Rajendra Prasad	26 January 1950	13 May 1962	Template:Age in years and days	1952	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
						1957
2	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1962	13 May 1967	Template:Age in years and days	1962	Zakir Husain	Independent	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
3	File:Zakir Husain, 2nd Vice President of India.jpg	Zakir HusainTemplate:Dagger	13 May 1967	3 May 1969	Template:Age in years and days	1967	V. V. Giri
–	File:Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 3rd Vice President of India.jpg	V. V. Giri	3 May 1969	20 July 1969	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Endash
–	File:Mohammad Hidayatullah, 6th Vice President of India.jpg	Mohammad Hidayatullah	20 July 1969	24 August 1969	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Endash
4	File:Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 3rd Vice President of India.jpg	V. V. Giri	24 August 1969	24 August 1974	Template:Age in years and days	1969	Gopal Swarup Pathak	Independent	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
5	File:President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.jpg	Fakhruddin Ali AhmedTemplate:Dagger	24 August 1974	11 February 1977	Template:Age in years and days	1974	Gopal Swarup Pathak B. D. Jatti	Indian National Congress	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
–	File:Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice President of India.jpg	B. D. Jatti	11 February 1977	25 July 1977	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Endash
6	File:Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.jpg	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25 July 1977	25 July 1982	Template:Age in years and days	1977	B. D. Jatti Mohammad Hidayatullah	Janata Party	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
7	File:Giani Zail Singh.jpg	Zail Singh	25 July 1982	25 July 1987	Template:Age in years and days	1982	Mohammad Hidayatullah Ramaswamy Venkataraman	Indian National Congress	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
8	File:Ramaswamy Venkataraman (2012 stamp of India) (cropped).jpg	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25 July 1987	25 July 1992	Template:Age in years and days	1987	Shankar Dayal Sharma
9	Shankar Dayal Sharma	Shankar Dayal Sharma	25 July 1992	25 July 1997	Template:Age in years and days	1992	K. R. Narayanan
10	File:The official portrait of Shri Kocheril Raman Narayanan, 10th President of the Republic of India.png	K. R. Narayanan	25 July 1997	25 July 2002	Template:Age in years and days	1997	Krishan Kant
11	Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	25 July 2002	25 July 2007	Template:Age in years and days	2002	Krishan Kant Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Independent	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
12	File:The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.jpg	Pratibha Patil	25 July 2007	25 July 2012	Template:Age in years and days	2007	Hamid Ansari	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
13	File:Pranab Mukherjee Portrait.jpg	Pranab Mukherjee	25 July 2012	25 July 2017	Template:Age in years and days	2012
14	File:The official portrait of Shri Ram Nath Kovind, 14th President of the Republic of India.jpg	Ram Nath Kovind	25 July 2017	25 July 2022	Template:Age in years and days	2017	Hamid Ansari Venkaiah Naidu	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
15	File:Droupadi Murmu POI official portrait.jpg	Droupadi Murmu	25 July 2022	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days	2022	Venkaiah Naidu Jagdeep Dhankhar C. P. Radhakrishnan

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See also

• President of India
• Vice President of India
• Prime Minister of India
• List of vice presidents of India
• List of prime ministers of India
• List of heads of state and government of Indian origin

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