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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.
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.
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 ...
24 August 1974 Independent: I. Gandhi 5 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977) 1974: 24 August 1974 11 February 1977 (died in office.) Indian National Congress: I. Gandhi – Basappa Danappa Jatti (1912–2002) – 11 February 1977 25 July 1977 Indian National Congress: I. Gandhi Desai: 6 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913–1996) 1977: 25 July 1977 25 ...
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8 3 67600 1.18% Orissa Jana Congress: 42 1 67169 1.17% Jharkhand Party: 12 1 34786 0.60% Indian National Congress (Organization) 17 0 29103 0.51% Bharatiya Jana Sangh: 12 0 23335 0.41% All India Jharkhand Party: 8 0 15360 0.27% Socialist Unity Centre of India: 4 0 10214 0,18% All India Forward Bloc: 2 0 1080 0.02%
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 ...
The strike lasted for 20 days till 27 May 1974 and was the largest recorded industrial action in the world. [5] [6] 18 May – Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon in the Thar Desert, and becomes the sixth nation to do so. [7]