No President (Birth -- Death) Portrait Tenure Elected Political affiliation (at time of appointment) Prime Minister Took office Left office Rajendra Prasad (1884 -- 1963) 26 January 1950 13 May 1962 1952 1957 Indian National Congress Nehru Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888 -- 1975) 13 May 1962 13 May 1967 1962 Independent Nehru Nanda Shastri Nanda Gandhi Zakir Husain (1897 -- 1969) 13 May 1967 3 May 1969 (died in office.) 1967 Independent Gandhi -- V.V. Giri (1894 -- 1980) 3 May 1969 20 July 1969 -- Independent Gandhi -- Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905 -- 1992) 20 July 1969 24 August 1969 -- Gandhi V.V. Giri (1894 -- 1980) 24 August 1969 24 August 1974 1969 Independent Gandhi 5 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905 -- 1977) 24 August 1974 11 February 1977 (died in office.) Indian National Congress Gandhi -- B.D. Jatti (1912 -- 2002) 11 February 1977 25 July 1977 -- Indian National Congress Gandhi Desai 6 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913 -- 1996) 25 July 1977 25 July 1982 1977 Janata Party Desai Singh Gandhi 7 Giani Zail Singh (1916 -- 1994) 25 July 1982 25 July 1987 1982 Indian National Congress Gandhi Gandhi 8 R. Venkataraman (1910 -- 2009) 25 July 1987 25 July 1992 Indian National Congress Gandhi Singh Shekhar Rao 9 Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918 -- 1999) 25 July 1992 25 July 1997 1992 Indian National Congress Rao Vajpayee Deve Gowda Gujral 10 K.R. Narayanan (1920 -- 2005) 25 July 1997 25 July 2002 1997 Indian National Congress Gujral Vajpayee 11 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931 -- 2015) 25 July 2002 25 July 2007 2002 Independent Vajpayee Singh 12 Pratibha Patil (1934 --) 25 July 2007 25 July 2012 2007 Indian National Congress Singh 13 Pranab Mukherjee (1935 --) 25 July 2012 25 July 2017 2012 Indian National Congress Singh Modi 13 Ram Nath Kovind (1945 --) 25 July 2017 Incumbent 2017 Bharatiya Janata Party Modi
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Ram Nath Kovind