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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 ...
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 ...
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.
On the advice of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed proclaimed a state of national emergency on 25 June 1975.. The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency across the country by citing internal and external threats to the country.
22 January – S.M. Sikri became Chief Justice of India. [13] 28 July – Law Minister H. R. Gokhale introduces Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India and Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India in Lok Sabha. [14] 5 November – President of India gave his assent to Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India ...
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 ...