List of Presidents of India: 1950 to 2020, Full list

President of India – List of Presidents of India (1950 to 2020):

President of India is referred as the first citizen of India. The President of India is the head of state of India and He is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is elected by an electoral body composed of the elected members of the Parliament, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Vidhan Sabha.

According to the Article 56, Part V, of the Constitution of India, Presidents may remain in his office for tenure of 5 years. Within the case where a president's term of office is terminated early or during the absence of the president, the Vice President can assume the office.

There are 14 personalities who served as Indian Presidents since the adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1950 and there are tenures when the country was headed by an acting President. In this article, you will get to understand about all the Presidents of India from 1950 to 2020.

Presidents of India: Eligibility

According to the Constitution of India, Article 58 states a few conditions for a candidate to be eligible for the election of the President of India. Some of the following conditions have given below:

a)      The President of India should be a citizen of India.

b)      The President of India must be above the age of 35 years.

c)       The President of India should be qualified for election as member of the Lok Sabha.

d)      The President of India should not hold any office of profit under the State Government, Union, and other local authorities.

List of Presidents of India (1950-2020):-

The Constitution of India was adopted on January 26, 1950. On same day i.e. on 26 January, 1950, Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected as the first constitutional head of the state, the President of India.

List of Presidents of India: 1950 to 2020, Full list

Pranab Mukherjee was the 13th President of India and he completed his term in July 2017. Though he was eligible, but he did not contest for re-election. As a result, on July 25th, 2017, Ram Nath Kovind became the 14th President of India and he was appointed by the electoral body.  

        

No.	Name	Term of Office	Previous Post	Party
1	Dr. Rajendra Prasad	26 January 1950  - 13 May 1962 (12 Years, 107 Days)	President of the Constituent Assembly	Indian National Congress
2	Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1962  -  13 May 1967 (5 Years)	Vice President	Independent
3	Zakir Husain	13 May 1967  -   3 May 1969 (1 Year, 355 Days)	Vice President	Independent
--	Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Acting President)	3 May 1969  -  20 July 1969 (78 Days)	Vice President	-----
--	Mohammad Hidayatullah (Acting President)	20 July 1969  -  24 August 1969 (35 Days)	Chief Justice	-----
4	Varahagiri Venkata Giri	24 August 1969  -  24 August 1974 (5 Years)	Acting President	Independent
5	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	24 August 1974  -  11 February 1977 (2 Years, 171 Days)	Food and Agriculture Minister	Indian National Congress
--	Basappa Danappa Jatti (Acting President)	11 February 1977  -  25 July 1977 (164 Days)	Vice President	-----
6	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25 July 1977  -  25 July 1982 (5 Years)	Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and then Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Janata Party
7	Zail Singh	25 July 1982  -  25 July 1987 (5 Years)	Chief Minister of Punjab and then Union Home Minister	Indian National Congress
8	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25 July 1987  -  25 July 1992 (5 Years)	Vice President	Indian National Congress
9	Shankar Dayal Sharma	25 July 1992  -  25 July 1997 (5 Years)	Vice President. He also served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra.	Indian National Congress
10	Kocheril Raman Narayanan	25 July 1997  -  25 July 2002 (5 Years)	Vice President. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was the first Dalit President.	Independent
11	Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam	25 July 2002  -  25 July 2007 (5 Years)	Chief Scientific Advisor of Prime Minister. He also received the Bharat Ratna. He was popularly known as "People's President".	Independent
12	Pratibha Patil	25 July 2007  -  25 July 2012 (5 Years)	Governor of Rajasthan. Pratibha Patil was the first woman to become the President of India.	Indian National Congress
13	Pranab Mukherjee	25 July 2012  -  25 July 2017 (5 Years)	Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.	Indian National Congress
14	Ram Nath Kovind	25 July 2017  -  Incumbent (Term ends on 25 July 2022)	Governor of Bihar.	Bharatiya Janata Party