List of all Presidents of India-General Knowledge

List of all Presidents of India-General Knowledge

The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India.

The President is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Armed Forces.

The Vice-President of India is the second-highest constitutional office in India, after the President.

1.      Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India in 1947.

2.    Two presidents, Zakir Hussain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, have died in office.

3.    The terms of Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Muhammad Hidayatullah, and Basappa Danappa Jatti, who have functioned as acting presidents.

4.    Pratibha Patil, who was in office till 25 July 2012, was elected as the 12th President of India in 2007. She is also the first woman to serve as President of India.

5.     The current President is Pranab Mukherjee elected on 25 July 2012.

6.    Mukherjee held various posts in the cabinet ministry for the Government of India such as Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. He originally comes from West Bengal and is also the first Bengali to hold the post of the President.

List of President of India :

Name	Period
Rajendra Prasad	26-Jan-1950 to 13-May-1962
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13-May-1962 to 13-May-1967
Zakir Hussain	13-May-1967 to 3-May-1969
Varahagiri Venkata Giri	3-May-1969 to 20-Jul-1969
Muhammad Hidayatullah	20-Jul-1969 to 24-Aug-1969
Varahagiri Venkata Giri	24-Aug-1969 to 24-Aug-1974
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	24-Aug-1974 to 11-Feb-1977
Basappa Danappa Jatti	11-Feb-1977 to 25-Jul-1977
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25-Jul-1977 to 25-Jul-1982
Giani Zail Singh	25-Jul-1982 to 25-Jul-1987
Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25-Jul-1987 to 25-Jul-1992
Shankar Dayal Sharma	25-Jul-1992 to 25-Jul-1997
Kocheril Raman Narayanan	25-Jul-1997 to 25-Jul-2002
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	25-Jul-2002 to 25-Jul-2007
Pratibha Patil	25-Jul-2007 to 25-Jul-2012
Pranab Mukherjee	25-Jul-2012 to 24-Jul-2017
Ram Nath Kovind	25-Jul-2017 to Till now