List of presidents of India

The President of India is the head of state of the Republic of India. This is the list of individuals who were presidents of the republic.

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.

Legend

  Indian National Congress (INC) (8)

  Janata Party (JP) (1)

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (2)

  Independent (IND) (4)

  Acting President (3)

Key

• ^RES Resigned
• ^† Died in office

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Home state	Former Office(s)	Term of office			Election	Vice- President	Political party
				Assumed office	Left office	Time in office
	Rajendra Prasad (1884–1963)	Bihar	Minister of Agriculture	26 January 1950	13 May 1952	12 years, 107 days	1950	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Indian National Congress
				13 May 1952	13 May 1957		1952
				13 May 1957	13 May 1962		1957
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975)	Tamil Nadu	Vice President of India	13 May 1962	13 May 1967	5 years, 0 days	1962	Zakir Husain	Independent
	Zakir Husain (1897–1969)	Andhra Pradesh	Vice President of India Governor of Bihar	13 May 1967	3 May 1969	1 year, 355 days	1967	V. V. Giri
	V. V. Giri (1894–1980)	Odisha	Vice President of India	3 May 1969	20 July 1969	78 days	–
	Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992)	Chhattisgarh	Chief Justice of India	20 July 1969	24 August 1969	35 days	–
	V. V. Giri (1894–1980)	Odisha	Vice President of India Governor of Kerala	24 August 1969	24 August 1974	5 years, 0 days	1969	Vacant (1969), Gopal Swarup Pathak (1969-1974)
	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977)	National Capital Territory of Delhi	Minister of Agriculture	24 August 1974	11 February 1977	2 years, 171 days	1974	Gopal Swaroop Pathak (1974), B. D. Jatti (1974–1977)	Indian National Congress
	B. D. Jatti (1912–2002)	Karnataka	Chief Minister of Karnataka	11 February 1977	25 July 1977	164 days	–
	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913–1996)	Andhra Pradesh	Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh	25 July 1977	25 July 1982	5 years, 0 days	1977	B. D. Jatti (1977–1979), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1979–1982)	Janata Party
	Zail Singh (1916–1994)	Punjab	Chief Minister of Punjab	25 July 1982	25 July 1987	5 years, 0 days	1982	Mohammad Hidayatullah (1982–1984), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1984–1987)	Indian National Congress
	Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910–2009)	Tamil Nadu	Vice President of India Minister of Defence	25 July 1987	25 July 1992	5 years, 0 days	1987	Vacant (1987), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1987–1992)
	Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999)	Madhya Pradesh	Vice President of India Governor of Maharashtra	25 July 1992	25 July 1997	5 years, 0 days	1992	Vacant (1992), K. R. Narayanan (1992–1997)
	K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005)	Kerala	Vice President of India	25 July 1997	25 July 2002	5 years, 0 days	1997	Vacant (1997), Krishan Kant (1997–2002)
	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015)	Tamil Nadu	Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of India	25 July 2002	25 July 2007	5 years, 0 days	2002	Krishan Kant (2002) , Vacant (2002), Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (2002–2007), Vacant (2007)	Independent
	Pratibha Patil (born 1934)	Maharashtra	Governor of Rajasthan	25 July 2007	25 July 2012	5 years, 0 days	2007	Vacant (2007), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (2007–2012)	Indian National Congress
	Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020)	West Bengal	Minister of Defence Minister of Finance Minister of External Affairs	25 July 2012	25 July 2017	5 years, 0 days	2012	Mohammad Hamid Ansari (2012–2017)
	Ram Nath Kovind (born 1945)	Uttar Pradesh	Governor of Bihar	25 July 2017	25 July 2022	5 years, 0 days	2017	Mohammad Hamid Ansari (2017), Venkaiah Naidu (2017–2022)	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Droupadi Murmu (born 1958)	Odisha	Governor of Jharkhand	25 July 2022	Incumbent	3 years, 101 days	2022	Venkaiah Naidu (2022), Jagdeep Dhankhar (2022–2025), Vacant (2025), C. P. Radhakrishnan (2025–present)

Timeline

Timeline

References

• "Former Presidents". President’s Secretariat. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
• "List of Presidents/Vice Presidents". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2008.

Other websites

• Official website of the President of India
• Rediff.com – Presidents of India
• The Hindu – A presidential poll in the coalition age Archived 2007-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Zee News: Former Presidents
• India-Gk: List of President of India Archived 2019-07-17 at the Wayback Machine