Second ladies of India

Second Lady of the India
National Emblem of India
Flag of India
Incumbent Sudesh Dhankhar since 11 August 2022
Residence	Vice President's House, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Inaugural holder	Sivakamu Radhakrishnan
Formation	13 May 1952;73 years ago (1952-05-13)

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.

Second ladies of India

Vice President No.	Name	Portrait	Tenure	Tenure end	Vice president's tenure
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

See also

• List of vice presidents of India
• First ladies and gentlemen of India
• Spouse of the prime minister of India

Notes

1. She was the first Indian second lady not to succeed her superior as First Lady of India.

References

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