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 of presidents of India

Legend

  Indian National Congress (INC) (8)

  Janata Party (JP) (1)

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (2)

  Independent (IND) (4)

  Acting President (3)

Key

• ^RES Resigned
• ^† Assassinated or died in office

Portrait	Name	Term of office			Election	Vice president	Party
	Rajendra Prasad	26 January 1950	13 May 1962	12 years, 107 days	1952	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	Indian National Congress
					1957
	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1962	13 May 1967	5 years, 0 days	1962	Zakir Husain	Independent
	Zakir Husain†	13 May 1967	3 May 1969	1 year, 355 days	1967	V. V. Giri
	V. V. Giri	3 May 1969	20 July 1969	78 days	–
	Mohammad Hidayatullah	20 July 1969	24 August 1969	35 days	–
	V. V. Giri	24 August 1969	24 August 1974	5 years, 0 days	1969	Gopal Swarup Pathak	Independent
	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed†	24 August 1974	11 February 1977	2 years, 171 days	1974	Gopal Swarup Pathak B. D. Jatti	Indian National Congress (R)
	B. D. Jatti	11 February 1977	25 July 1977	164 days	–
	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25 July 1977	25 July 1982	5 years, 0 days	1977	B. D. Jatti Mohammad Hidayatullah	Janata Party
	Zail Singh	25 July 1982	25 July 1987	5 years, 0 days	1982	Mohammad Hidayatullah Ramaswamy Venkataraman	Indian National Congress (I)
	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25 July 1987	25 July 1992	5 years, 0 days	1987	Shankar Dayal Sharma
	Shankar Dayal Sharma	25 July 1992	25 July 1997	5 years, 0 days	1992	K. R. Narayanan
	K. R. Narayanan	25 July 1997	25 July 2002	5 years, 0 days	1997	Krishan Kant
	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	25 July 2002	25 July 2007	5 years, 0 days	2002	Krishan Kant Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Independent
	Pratibha Patil	25 July 2007	25 July 2012	5 years, 0 days	2007	Hamid Ansari	Indian National Congress
	Pranab Mukherjee	25 July 2012	25 July 2017	5 years, 0 days	2012
	Ram Nath Kovind	25 July 2017	25 July 2022	5 years, 0 days	2017	Hamid Ansari Venkaiah Naidu	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Droupadi Murmu	25 July 2022	Incumbent	4 years, 14 days	2022	Venkaiah Naidu Jagdeep Dhankhar C. P. Radhakrishnan

Timeline

Timeline

Standards

• 
  Governor-General's Standard (1947–1950)
• 
  Presidential Standard (1950–1971)

Living former heads of state

There are two living former Indian heads of state:

Image	Name	Term/reign	Office	Date of birth
	Pratibha Patil	2007–2012	President of India	(1934-12-19) 19 December 1934
	Ram Nath Kovind	2017–2022	President of India

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