List of Vice-Presidents of India and their Term of Office (1952-2022)

List of Vice-Presidents of India and their Term of Office (1952-2022) – The 2022 Vice-Presidential Elections to elect the 14th Vice President of India are scheduled to be held on August 6, 2022. The announcement regarding the elections was made by the Election Commission of India. The winner of the 2022 Vice-Presidential Election will replace incumbent Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. The BJP, which is also a ruling party, nominated Jagdeep Dhankhar as the vice presidential candidate on July 16, 2022, while Margaret Alva was nominated as the opposition candidate for vice-president on July 17.

• The Vice President of India is the second highest constitutional office of the Government of India and is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
• The Vice-President is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of members of both houses of Parliament and the State Legislature has no role to play in this election.
• M Venkaiah Naidu is the current Vice President of India who assumed office on 11 August 2017.
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List of Vice-Presidents of India and their Term of Office (1952-2022)

S. No.	Vice-President	Tenure (From)	Tenure (To)	President
1	Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1952	12 May 1962	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2	Dr. Zakir Hussain	13 May 1962	12 May 1967	Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3	Varahagiri Venkata Giri	13 May 1967	20 July 1969	Dr. Zakir Hussain
4	Gopal Swarup Pathak	31 August 1969	30 August 1974	V. V. Giri
				Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
5	Basappa Danappa Jatti	31 August 1974	30 August 1979	Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
				Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
6	Justice Muhammad Hidayatullah	31 August 1979	30 August 1984	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
				Giani Zail Singh
7	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	31 August 1984	24 July 1987	Giani Zail Singh
8	Shankar Dayal Sharma	7 September 1987	24 July 1992	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
9	Kocheril Raman Narayanan	21 August 1992	24 July 1997	Shankar Dayal Sharma
10	Krishan Kant	21 August 1997	27 July 2002	Kocheril Raman Narayanan
				A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	19 August 2002	21 July 2007	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
12	Mohammad Hamid Ansari	11 August 2007	10 August 2017	Pratibha Patil
				Pranab Mukherjee
				Ram Nath Kovind
13	M Venkaiah Naidu	11 August 2017	August 2022	Ram Nath Kovind
14	Jagdeep Dhankhar	Auguast 2022	Current	Draupadi Murmu

Qualifications for Vice-President of India:

• He must be a citizen of India.
• He should not be less than 35 years.
• He must be eligible for election as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
• He must not be a member of the Rajya Sabha.
• He should not hold any office of profit.

Term of Office:

• Vice-President is elected for 5 years and is eligible for immediate re-election.

However, he can be terminated before his tenure through these methods:

• Resignation to be addressed to the President
• Removal- by a resolution of the council of states passed by the majority of its members and agreed to by the Lok Sabha.