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Following Zakir Husain's death, two acting presidents held office until the new president, V. V. Giri, was elected. When Giri resigned to take part in the presidential elections, he was succeeded by Mohammad Hidayatullah as acting president. [6] The 12th president, Pratibha Patil, is the first woman to hold the office, elected in 2007.
At 64, he was the youngest person to be elected President of India until Droupadi Murmu was elected President in 2022. [58] He was also the only serious presidential candidate to have contested twice – in 1969 against V V Giri and in 1977.
In 1962, after serving 12 years as president, he announced his decision to retire. After relinquishing the office of the President of India in May 1962, he returned to Patna on 14 May 1962 and stayed on the campus of Bihar Vidyapeeth. [23] His wife died on 9 September 1962, a month before Indo-China War.
Murmu is the second woman after Pratibha Patil to serve as president. [4] Murmu speaking before the 75th Independence Day, August 2022. Murmu addressed the nation for the first time as president on 14 August 2022, the eve of the 75th Independence Day. [37] In September 2022, she launched a government program 'Pradhanmantri TB mukht Bharat ...
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 .
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the 13th president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India.
The president of India (ISO: Bhārata kē Rāṣṭrapati) is the head of state of the Republic of India. The president is the nominal head of the executive, [a] the first citizen of the country, as well as the supreme commander of the Indian Armed Forces. Droupadi Murmu is the 15th and current president, having taken office from 25 July 2022.
He further argued that he was lecturing on the subject before publishing his book, and that his book was ready for publication in 1924, before Sinha's thesis was published. [ 71 ] Scholars such as Kuppuswami Sastri, Ganganath Jha , and Nalini Ganguli confirmed that Radhakrishnan was distributing the notes in question since 1922.