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Top left: Rajendra Prasad was the first and longest-serving President of India. Top right: Zakir Husain was the first from a minority religion to become President of India. Bottom left: Pratibha Patil was the first female President of India. Bottom right: Droupadi Murmu is the current President and the first President from the tribal community.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
President Patil addressing the Indians on the eve of Independence Day, 2007 President Patil and her husband with the Queen and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, 2009. Patil's term as the President of India saw various controversies and is widely considered as lackluster. [26] She commuted death sentences of 35 petitioners to life, a record ...
Name Portrait Since Ref. President of the Republic of India: Droupadi Murmu: 25 July 2022 [1] Vice President of the Republic of India: Jagdeep Dhankhar: 11 August 2022 [2] Prime Minister of the Republic of India: Narendra Modi: 26 May 2014 [3] Chief Justice of the Republic of India: Sanjiv Khanna: 11 November 2024 Speaker of Lok Sabha: Om Birla ...
The president of the party has effectively been the party's national leader, head of the party's organisation, head of the Working Committee, the chief spokesman, and all chief Congress committees. [3] After the party's foundation in December 1885, Womesh Chandra Banerjee became its first president. From 1885 to 1933, the presidency had a term ...
The current head of state of India is Droupadi Murmu, elected in 2022 after being nominated by the National Democratic Alliance. From 1947 to 1950, the head of state under the Indian Independence Act 1947 was King of India , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] who was also the monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions of the British Commonwealth .
30 June 1981 206 days Assam: Indian National Congress: 5 V. N. Janaki Ramachandran (1923–1996) 7 January 1988 30 January 1988 23 days Tamil Nadu: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 6 J. Jayalalithaa (1948–2016) 24 June 1991 12 May 1996 14 years, 124 days 14 May 2001 21 September 2001: 2 March 2002 12 May 2006 16 May 2011 27 September ...
Name (Birth–Death) Home state Term of office Union territory Appointed by Ref. Assumed office Left office Time in office 1 Chandrawati (1928–2020) Haryana: 19 February 1990 18 December 1990 302 days Puducherry: R. Venkataraman: 2 Rajendra Kumari Bajpai (1925–1999) Bihar: 2 May 1995 22 April 1998 2 years, 355 days Shanker Dayal Sharma: 3 ...