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Vice President of India: 3 May 1969 20 July 1969 78 days – – Acting Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) Chhattisgarh: Chief Justice of India: 20 July 1969 24 August 1969 35 days – – 4 V. V. Giri (1894–1980) Odisha: Vice President of India. Governor of Kerala. 24 August 1969 24 August 1974 5 years Mohammad Hidayatullah: 1969: Gopal ...
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May 1905 – 11 February 1977) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of India from 1974 to 1977.. Born in Delhi, Ahmed studied in Delhi and Cambridge and was called to the bar from the Inner Temple, London in 1928.
He also served as the third vice president of India from 13 May 1967 to 3 May 1969. He was the first president to be elected as an independent candidate. [3] He was succeeded by Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed as president in 1974. [4] After the end of his full term, Giri was honoured by the Government of India with the Bharat Ratna in 1975. Giri died on ...
The Election Commission of India held indirect sixth presidential elections of India on 17 August 1974. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, from Assam with 765,587 votes won over his nearest rival Tridib Chaudhuri, from West Bengal who got 189,196 votes.
The election of the President of India is an indirect election in which electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament (M.P.s), the elected members of the state legislative assemblies (Vidhan Sabhas) of all states and the elected members of the legislative assemblies (MLAs) of union territories with legislatures, i.e., National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi ...
President Reddy doing an aerial survey of flood affected areas of Tamil Nadu in 1977. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was elected on 21 July 1977 [53] and was sworn in as the sixth President of India on 25 July 1977. Reddy worked with three governments, with Prime Ministers Morarji Desai, Charan Singh and Indira Gandhi. [63]
The Indian constitution accords to the president the responsibility and authority to defend and protect the Constitution of India and its rule of law. [8] Invariably, any action taken by the executive or legislature entities of the constitution shall become law only after the president's assent.
India held its first national elections under the Constitution in 1952, where a turnout of over 60% was recorded. The Indian National Congress won an overwhelming majority, and Jawaharlal Nehru began a second term as prime minister. President Prasad was also elected to a second term by the electoral college of the first Parliament of India. [41]