List of Presidents of India PDF Download

There shall be a president of India under Article 52 of constitution. The president is the head of
the Indian state. The president of India is elected by an electoral college consisting of the elected
members of both the houses of parliament and that of state legislative assemblies.

 The president holds the office for a term of 5 years.

 The oath of office to the President is of India is administered by the Chief Justice of
India. In case his absence, by the senior most judge of the Supreme court.
 He can resign his office at any time by addressing the resignation letter to the Vice
president of India.
 He/ she can also be removed by impeachment by the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya
Sabha and submits his resignation to the Vice President of India.
 Election of president is an indirect one.
 For the qualification of election to the office of President, He / she must completed the
age of 35 years and should be a member of Lok Sabha, must be a citizen of India.

S.No. Name Tenure Related Points

He was the first and
26 January 1950- 13
1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad elected for longest
May 1962
serving president.
He is one of India's
most celebrated scholar
13 May 1962-13 May and philosopher his
2. Dr. S. Radhakrishan
1967 birthday is celebrated
as Teacher Day on 5th
September
He was first Muslim
13 May 1967-03 May
3. Zakir Hussain president and the only
1969
one who died in office.
He was elected vice
03 May 1969- 20 July president of India in
4. Sri. V.V. Giri
1974 1967, and appointed as
president of India
He was the 1st Chief
Mohammad 20 July 1969 - 24
5. Justice of India to be
Hidayatullah August 1969
appointed as president.
He was the second
Dr. Fakhruddin Ali 24 August 1974 - 11 president to die in
6.
Ahmed February 1977 office during
emergency.
He was the Vice
11 February 1977- 25 president of India
7. Basappa Danappa Jatti
July 1977 during Ahmed' s
Office, but later he was
 appointed as president
of India
He was the first Chief
Sri. Neelam Sanjeeva 25 July 1977 - 25 July
8. Minister of Andhra
Reddy 1982
Pradesh.
He was the chief
25 July 1982 - 25 July
9. Giani Zail Singh minister of Punjab in
1987
march 1972
He was elected to Lok
Sabha to four times. He
25 July 1987- 25 July
10. Sri. R. Venkataraman was finance and
1992
Defence Minister of
India.
He was the chief
minister of Madhya
Dr. Shankar Dayal 25 July 1992 - 25 July Pradesh and also served
11.
Sharma 1997 as governor of Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra
and Punjab.
He was the Vice
chancellor of Jawahar
25 July 1997- 25 July
12. Sri. K. R. Narayan Lal Nehru
2002
University.and was first
Dalit President of India
He was the scientist in
Dr. A.P. J. Abdul 25 July 2002- 25 July
13. the development of
Kalam 2007
ballistic missile.
He was the first women
Smt. Pratibha Devi 25 July 2007 - 25 July president of India and
14.
Singh Patil 2012 was first female
governor of Rajasthan.
He elected for the
various posts in the
25 July 2012 -25 July Cabinet ministry such
15. Sri. Pranab Mukherjee
2017 as Finance Minister,
Foreign Minister,
Defence Minister
He was the governor of
16. Ram Nath Kovind 25 July 2017- Till Date Bihar from 2015 to
2017