| Second Lady of the India | |
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| Residence | Vice President's House, New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Inaugural holder | Sivakamu Radhakrishnan |
| Formation | 13 May 1952 |
Second Lady or Second Gentleman of India is the title given to the host of Uparashtrapati Bhavan, usually the spouse of the vice president. The current second lady of India is Dr. Sudesh Dhankhar, the spouse of the incumbent vice president, Jagdeep Dhankhar.
| Vice President No. | Name | Portrait | Tenure | Tenure end | Vice president's tenure |
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| 1 | Sivakamu Radhakrishnan | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) | 13 May 1952 | 26 November 1956 (died while in office) | |
| 2 | Shah Jahan Begum [1] | Zakir Husain (1897–1969) | 13 May 1962 | 12 May 1967 | |
| 3 | Saraswati Bai |  | V. V. Giri (1894–1980) | 13 May 1967 | 3 May 1969 |
| 4 | Prakashwati Pathak [a] [2] | Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896–1982) | 31 August 1969 | 30 August 1974 | |
| 5 | Sangamma Jatti [3] | B. D. Jatti (1912–2002) | 31 August 1974 | 30 August 1979 | |
| 6 | Pushpa Shah [4] | Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) | 31 August 1979 | 30 August 1984 | |
| 7 | Janaki Venkataraman [5] |  | Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910–2009) | 31 August 1984 | 24 July 1987 |
| 8 | Vimala Sharma [6] |  | Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) | 3 September 1987 | 24 July 1992 |
| 9 | Usha Narayanan |  | K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005) | 21 August 1992 | 24 July 1997 |
| 10 | Suman Kant [7] | Krishan Kant (1927–2002) | 21 August 1997 | 27 July 2002 | |
| 11 | Suraj Kanwar [8] | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1925–2010) | 19 August 2002 | 21 July 2007 | |
| 12 | Salma Ansari [9] |  | Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937–) | 11 August 2007 | 11 August 2017 |
| 13 | Usha Naidu [10] |  | Venkaiah Naidu (1949–) | 11 August 2017 | 11 August 2022 |
| 14 | Sudesh Dhankhar |  | Jagdeep Dhankhar (1951-) | 11 August 2022 | Incumbent |
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