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Giri was elected president a few months later. He remains the only person to have held office both as a president and acting president. Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India, is the only person to have held office for two terms. [5] Seven presidents have been members of a political party before being elected.
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 ...
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.
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 .
The presidency of Droupadi Murmu began on 25 July 2022, after she took the oath as the 15th President of India, administered by Chief Justice N. V. Ramana. She was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee and defeated the United Opposition nominee and former Minister of Finance, Yashwant Sinha .
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.
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India.
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.