List Of All Presidents Of India From 1950 To 2024

Last Updated: 10 April 2024

Before we get into the list of All Presidents of India, let us have a quick intro to the President of India.

The President of India (IAST: Bhārat ke Rāṣṭrapati), officially the President of the Republic of India, is the ceremonial head of state of India and the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.

Mr. Ram Nath Kovind is the 14th and current President of the Republic of India who belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is serving as the President since 25 July 2017.

The Office of President was created when India became a republic on 26 January 1950, when its constitution came into force. The President is indirectly elected by an electoral college comprising both houses of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of each of India’s states and territories, who themselves are all directly elected.

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Eligibility

Article 58 of the constitution sets the principal qualifications one must meet to be eligible for the office of the President. A President must be:

A citizen of India
Must be 35 years of age or above
Must be qualified to become a member of the Lok Sabha

A person shall not be eligible for election as President if he holds any office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State or any local or other authority subject to the control of any of the said Governments.

Certain office-holders, however, are permitted to stand as Presidential candidates. These are:

The current Vice-President

The Governor of any state
A Minister of the Union or of any state (including Prime Minister and Chief Ministers)

If a Vice-President, a State Governor, or a Minister is elected President, they are considered to have vacated their previous office on the date they begin serving as President.

List Of All Presidents Of India

No.	President	Term In	Term Out	Total Term	Party
1	Rajendra Prasad	26 Jan 1950	13 May 1962	12 Years 107 Days	INC
2	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1962	13 May 1967	5 Years 0 Days	IND
3	Zakir Husain^✝	13 May 1967	3 May 1969	1 Year 355 Days	IND
~	V. V. Giri	03 May 1969	20 July 1969	78 Days	~
~	Mohammad Hidayatullah	20 July 1969	24 Aug 1969	35 Days	~
4	V. V. Giri	24 Aug 1969	24 Aug 1974	5 Years 0 Days	IND
5	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed^✝	24 Aug 1974	11 Feb 1977	2 Years 171 Days	INC
~	B. D. Jatti	11 Feb 1977	25 July 1977	164 Days	~
6	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25 July 1977	25 July 1982	5 Years 0 Days	JP
7	Zail Singh	25 July 1982	25 July 1987	5 Years 0 Days	INC
8	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25 July 1987	25 July 1992	5 Years 0 Days	INC
9	Shankar Dayal Sharma	25 July 1992	25 July 1997	5 Years 0 Days	INC
10	K. R. Narayanan	25 July 1997	25 July 2002	5 Years 0 Day	INC
11	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	25 July 2002	25 July 2007	5 Years 0 Days	IND
12	Pratibha Patil	25 July 2007	25 July 2012	5 Years 0 Days	INC
13	Pranab Mukherjee	25 July 2012	25 July 2017	5 Years 0 Days	INC
14	Ram Nath Kovind	25 July 2017	25 July 2022	5 Years 0 Days	BJP
15	Draupadi Murmu	25 July 2022	Incumbent	~	BJP

Acronyms
1) INC: Indian National Congress
2) IND: Independent
3) JP: Janata Party
4) BJP: Bharatiya Janata Party

Facts About The President Of India

The residence of the President of India:
- Primary: Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Summer: The Retreat Building, Chharabra, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Winter: Rashtrapati Nilayam, Bolarum, Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

The salary of the President of India is ₹500,000 (US$6,600) (per month) and ₹6,000,000 (US$80,000) (annually).

Under the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act of 1952, a candidate to be nominated for the office of President needs 50 electors as proposers and 50 electors as seconders for his name to appear on the ballot.

A money bill can be introduced in the parliament only with the President’s recommendation.

The President can declare war or conclude peace, on the advice of the Union Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister.

The President is responsible for making a wide variety of appointments. These include:
- The Chief Justice and other Judges of the Supreme Court of India and State/Union Territory High Courts.
- The Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Article 239 AA 5 of the constitution).
- The Comptroller and Auditor General.
- The Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners.
- The Chairman and other members of the Union Public Service Commission.
- The Attorney General.
- Ambassadors and High Commissioners to other countries (only through the list of names given by the prime minister).
- Officers of the All India Services (IAS, IPS, and IFoS), and other Central Civil Services in Group ‘A’.

Although Article 53 of the Constitution of India states that the President can exercise his powers directly or by subordinate authority, with few exceptions, all of the executive powers vested in the President are, in practice, exercised by the prime minister (a subordinate authority) with the help of the Council of Ministers.

All important treaties and contracts are made in the President’s name.

As mentioned in Article 72 of the Indian constitution, the President is empowered with the powers to grant pardons in the following situations:
1. Punishment is for an offense against Union law.
2. Punishment is by a Military Court.
3. A sentence that is of death.

The President of India can declare three types of Emergencies: National, State, and Financial, under articles 352, 356 & 360 in addition to promulgating ordinances under article 123.

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