List of vice presidents of India

The vice president of India is the second highest constitutional office in the government of India after the president.

Discharge

According to Article 63 of the Constitution of India, the vice president discharges the functions of the president when a contingency arises due to the resignation, removal, death, impeachment or inability.

At the upper house

The vice president is also the ex officio chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.^[1][2]

List of vice presidents of India

   Independent candidate

   Indian National Congress

  Bharatiya Janata Party

  Janata Dal

Key

^†-Died in office
^⸸-Resigned

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office[3]			Election	President	Party
1		Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1952	12 May 1957	9 years, 364 days	1952	Rajendra Prasad	Independent
			13 May 1957	12 May 1962		1957
2		Zakir Husain	13 May 1962	12 May 1967	4 years, 364 days	1962	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3		V. V. Giri ⸸	13 May 1967	3 May 1969	1 year, 355 days	1967	Zakir Hussain
4		Gopal Swarup Pathak	31 August 1969	30 August 1974	4 years, 364 days	1969	V. V. Giri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
5		B. D. Jatti	31 August 1974	30 August 1979	4 years, 364 days	1974	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	Indian National Congress
6		Mohammad Hidayatullah	31 August 1979	30 August 1984	4 years, 365 days	1979	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Zail Singh	Independent
7		Ramaswamy Venkataraman ⸸	31 August 1984	24 July 1987	2 years, 327 days	1984	Zail Singh	Indian National Congress
8		Shankar Dayal Sharma ⸸	3 September 1987	24 July 1992	4 years, 325 days	1987	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
9		K. R. Narayanan ⸸	21 August 1992	24 July 1997	4 years, 337 days	1992	Shankar Dayal Sharma
10		Krishan Kant†	21 August 1997	27 July 2002	4 years, 340 days	1997	K. R. Narayanan A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Janata Dal
11		Bhairon Singh Shekhawat ⸸	19 August 2002	21 July 2007	4 years, 336 days	2002	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Bharatiya Janata Party
12		Mohammad Hamid Ansari	11 August 2007	10 August 2012	9 years, 364 days	2007	Pratibha Patil	Indian National Congress
			11 August 2012	10 August 2017		2012	Pranab Mukherjee Ram Nath Kovind
13		Venkaiah Naidu	11 August 2017	11 August 2022	5 years, 0 days	2017	Ram Nath Kovind Droupadi Murmu	Bharatiya Janata Party
14		Jagdeep Dhankhar ⸸	11 August 2022	21 July 2025	2 years, 344 days	2022	Droupadi Murmu	Bharatiya Janata Party