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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.
2 President of India (1950–present) 3 Standards. 4 Notes. 5 References. ... This is a list of the heads of state of India, from independence in 1947 to the present day.
President of the Republic of India: Droupadi Murmu ji: 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: 19 June 2019 [4 ...
Kalam was the third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, before becoming the President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954) and Zakir Husain (1963) were the earlier recipients of Bharat Ratna who later became the President of India. [51]
The national president of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. [1] Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members drawn from the Pradesh Congress Committees and members of the All India Congress ...
Educationist and former diplomat. Elected as the first vice president of India on 13 May 1952 following the creation of the position and also became the first ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Re-elected for a second term in 1957 and continued to serve in office until being elected as the President in 1962. 2 Zakir Husain (1897–1969)
Since 1947, India has had 14 prime ministers. [a] Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).
In 1986, Lal Krishna Advani was sworn in as the party president and has been the longest serving president over three different periods. [4] [5] As of 2022, 11 people have served as the president of the BJP, including Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah who have also served two terms. J. P. Nadda is the most recent president, having been appointed in ...