List of all the Presidents of India- Updated 2020

• The president of India is the head of state of India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces.
• The president is referred to as the first citizen of India.
• The Vice-President of India is the second-highest constitutional office in India, after the President.
• Although vested with these powers by the Constitution of India, the position is largely a ceremonial one and executive powers are de facto exercised by the prime minister.
• The president is elected by the Electoral College composed of elected members of the parliament houses, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and also members of the Vidhan Sabha, the state legislative assemblies.
• Presidents may remain in office for a tenure of five years.
• In the case where a president’s term of office is terminated early or during the absence of the president, the vice president assumes office.
• There have been 14 presidents of India since the post was established when India was declared as a republic with the adoption of the Indian constitution in 1950.
• Apart from these fourteen, three acting presidents (Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Muhammad Hidayatullah, and Basappa Danappa Jatti,) have also been in office for short periods of time.
• Varahagiri Venkata Giri became the acting president in 1969 after Zakir Husain, died in office.
• Rajendra Prasad, the first president of India in 1947, is the only person to have held office for two terms.
• Two presidents, Zakir Hussain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, have died in office.
• 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.
• The Former President is Pranab Mukherjee elected on 25 July 2012.
• 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.
• The current President is Ram Nath Kovind was born on 1 October 1945, in Paraunkh village in the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh.

Other important General awareness

List of Current Chief Ministers in India – Updated 2020

List of all Prime Ministers of India – Updated 2020

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