List of vice presidents of India

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Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg
Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 3rd Vice President of India.jpg
The Vice President, Shri Shri M. Hamid Ansari during the release of his book 'Citizen and Society' at Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2016.jpg
Shri C P Radhakrishnan, Honourable Vice President of India.jpg
  • Top left: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first and longest-serving vice president of India.
  • Top right: V. V. Giri was the first vice president to serve as acting president upon demise of the president.
  • Bottom left: Mohammad Hamid Ansari was the longest-serving vice president and only vice president to serve under three presidents.
  • Bottom right: C. P. Radhakrishnan is the current vice president.

The vice president of India is the second highest constitutional office in the government of India after the president. In accordance with Article 63 of the Constitution of India, the vice president discharges the functions of the president when a contingency arises due to the resignation, removal, death, impeachment or the inability of the president to discharge their functions. They are also the ex officio chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. [1] [2]

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The vice president is elected by an electoral college consisting of all members of both houses of the Parliament in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote via a secret ballot conducted by the Election Commission of India. Once elected the vice president continues in office for a five-year term, but can continue in office irrespective of the expiry of the term, until a successor assumes office. [3] They can be removed by a resolution passed by an effective majority in the Rajya Sabha. [4] They are responsible for the protection of the rights and privileges of the members of the Council of States. They also decide whether a bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha is a financial bill. [1] There have been 15 vice presidents since the inception of the post in 1950. The first vice president of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, took oath at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 13 May 1952. [5] He later served as the president. [6] Following the death of Zakir Husain in 1969, Varahagiri Venkata Giri resigned from the post of vice president to contest the presidential election and got elected. [7] Out of 15 vice presidents, six of them later went on to become the president. [7] Krishan Kant has been the only one to die during his tenure. [8] Venkaiah Naidu [9] is the first vice president to be born after Independent India is formed.

List

This list is numbered based on vice presidents elected after winning an Indian vice presidential election. The vice president of India does not represent any political party. The colors used in the table indicate the following:



NoPortraitNameTerm of office [10] Election President Party
1 Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 13 May 195212 May 19579 years, 364 days 1952
(Unopposed)		 Rajendra Prasad Independent
13 May 195712 May 1962 1957
(Unopposed)
2 Zakir Husain, 2nd Vice President of India.jpg Zakir Husain 13 May 196212 May 19674 years, 364 days 1962
(95.3%)		 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3 Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 3rd Vice President of India.jpg V. V. Giri 13 May 19673 May 1969 [RES] [a] 1 year, 355 days 1967
(71.45%)		 Zakir Husain
4 Gopal Swarup Pathak1.jpg Gopal Swarup Pathak 31 August 196930 August 19744 years, 364 days 1969
(52.7%)		 Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
5 Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice President of India.jpg B. D. Jatti 31 August 197430 August 19794 years, 364 days 1974
(78.7%)		 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 		Indian National Congress
6 Mohammad Hidayatullah, 6th Vice President of India.jpg Mohammad Hidayatullah 31 August 197930 August 19844 years, 365 days 1979
(Unopposed)		 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Giani Zail Singh 		Independent
7 Ramaswamy Venkataraman (2012 stamp of India) (cropped).jpg R. Venkataraman 31 August 198424 July 1987 [RES] [b] 2 years, 327 days 1984
(71.05%)		 Giani Zail Singh Indian National Congress
8 Shankar Dayal Sharma.jpg Shankar Dayal Sharma 3 September 198724 July 1992 [RES] [c] 4 years, 325 days 1987
(Unopposed)		 R. Venkataraman
9 President Clinton with Indian president K. R. Narayanan (cropped).jpg K. R. Narayanan 21 August 199224 July 1997 [RES] [d] 4 years, 337 days 1992
(99.86%)		 Shanker Dayal Sharma
10 Krishan Kant, 10th Vice President of India.jpg Krishan Kant 21 August 199727 July 2002 [†] 4 years, 340 days 1997
(61.76%)		 K. R. Narayanan
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 		Janata Dal
11 BS Shekhawat.jpg Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 19 August 200221 July 2007 [RES] [e] 4 years, 336 days 2002
(59.82%)		 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Bharatiya Janata Party
12 The Vice President Shri M. Hamid Ansari in July 2016.jpg Mohammad Hamid Ansari 11 August 200710 August 20129 years, 364 days 2007
(60.5%)		 Pratibha Patil
Pranab Mukherjee 		Indian National Congress
11 August 201210 August 2017 2012
(67.31%)		 Pranab Mukherjee
Ram Nath Kovind
13 Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg M. Venkaiah Naidu 11 August 201710 August 20224 years, 364 days 2017
(67.89%)		 Ram Nath Kovind
Droupadi Murmu 		Bharatiya Janata Party
14 Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar official portrait (2) (cropped).jpg Jagdeep Dhankhar 11 August 202221 July 2025 [RES] 2 years, 344 days 2022
(74.37%)		 Droupadi Murmu
15 Shri C P Radhakrishnan, Honourable Vice President of India.jpg C. P. Radhakrishnan 12 September 2025Incumbent2 days 2025
(60.1%)

Statistics

Representation of vice presidents by party of candidacy
  1. Independent (33.3%)
  2. Indian National Congress (33.3%)
  3. Bharatiya Janata Party (26.7%)
  4. Janata Dal (6.67%)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Resigned after being elected as the President of India.
  2. ↑ Resigned after being elected as the President of India.
  3. ↑ Resigned after being elected as the President of India.
  4. ↑ Resigned after being elected as the President of India.
  5. ↑ Resigned for contesting the 2007 Indian presidential election, but lost to Pratibha Patil.

References

  1. 1 2 "Powers and responsibilities of Vice President of India". News Nation. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Jha, Jitesh (8 August 2017). "Fact Box: Vice President of India". Dainik Jagran. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  3. ↑ Relhan, Vibhor (5 August 2017). "Following the elections of the Vice President of India". PRS Legislative Research. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "The Upper House of Indian Parliament". Rajya Sabha. Archived from the original on 7 April 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "From Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan to Venkaiah Naidu: All the Vice Presidents of India". The Times of India. 5 August 2017. Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  6. ↑ Greenhouse, Linda (17 April 1975). "Radhakrishnan of India, Philosopher, Dead at 86". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 December 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Venkaiah Naidu vs Gopalkrishna Gandhi: 6 vice-presidents who went on to become presidents". India Today. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  8. ↑ Jafri, Syed Amin (27 July 2002). "Krishan Kant is first vice-president to die in office". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "Venkaiah Naidu sworn in as Vice-President". The Hindu. 11 August 2017. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "Former Vice Presidents | Vice President of India | Government of India". vicepresidentofindia.nic.in.
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