List of Vice President of India

Vice President of India

Vice President of India is the second-highest constitutional office after the President in India. Article 63 of the Indian constitution states that “There shall be a Vice President of India”. Due to any reasons if the president of India is not available, then the Vice President of the country can act as president of India and handle all the responsibilities till the president not elected and can hold this position for a maximum of 6 months. Vice President may resign from his or her post by submitting his or her resignation to the President of India. The resignation becomes effective from the same day it is accepted.

The Vice President of India is elected indirectly by an electoral college comprises both houses member. Vice President gets INR 4,00000 salary per month along with other allowances and also entitled to get the pension, which is 50 per cent of the salary.

Vice President is elected for 5 years and eligible for re-election. Any bills, resolutions, motions or questions can be passed only after his/her consent, otherwise not passed. Vice President also acts as  Honourable Chancellor of Panjab University, Chandigarh.

M. Venkaiah Naidu is the current Vice President of India.

List of Vice President of India

Here in the list of vice president of India, we have shared their born date, death date, their tenure dates, education qualification and most importantly their name in the order.

Order	Name of Vice President	Born Date	Death Date	Tenure	Edu Qualification
13th	M. Venkaiah Naidu	July 1, 1949	–	2017 – Till	B.A., B.L. (Educated at V.R. High School, Nellore; V.R. College, Nellore and Law College, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam)
12th	Md. Hamid Ansari	1 Apr 1937		August 11, 2007 to August 10, 2017	BA (Hons); MA (Political Science)
11th	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	23 Oct 1923	15 May 2010	August 19, 2002 to July 21, 200
10th	Krishan Kant	28 Feb 1927	27 Jul 2002	August 21, 1997 to July 27, 2002	M.Sc. (Technology) from BHU
9th	K R Narayanan	27 Oct 1920	09 Nov 2005	August 21, 1992 to July 24, 1997	M. A. (English Literature) from University of Travancore, B.Sc. (Economics) from London School of Economics
8th	Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma	19 Aug 1918	26 Dec1999	September 3, 1987 to July 24, 1992	M.A., LLM,, Ph.D. (Cambridge University)
7th	R Venkatraman	04 Dec 1910	27 Jan 2009	August 31, 1984 to July 24, 1987	M.A., B.L., Doctorate of Laws from Universities of Madras, Doctorate of Social Sciences (University of Roorkee)
6th	Md M Hidayatullah	17 Dec 1905	18 Sept 1992	August 31, 1979 to August 30, 1984	M.A., Barrister-at-law, LL.D from University of Philippines, D. Litt from Universities of Bhopal and Kakatiya
5th	B D Jatti	10 Sept 1912	07 Jun 2002	August 31, 1974 to August 30, 1979	B-A, LL.B
4th	Gopal Swarup Pathak	26 Feb 1896	31 Aug 1982	August 31, 1969 to August 30, 1974	M.A , LL.B.
3rd	V V Giri	10 Aug 1894	24 Jun 1980	May 13, 1967 to May 3, 1969	Barrister-at-Law, D. Litt. from Banaras Hindu University and Andhra University, LL.D from Agra University
2nd	Zakir Hussain	8 Feb 1897	03 May 1969	May 13, 1962 to May 12, 1967	M.A., Ph.D. (Berlin), D. Litt. from Universities of Delhi, Aligarh, Allahabad, Calcutta and Cairo
1st	S Radhakrishnan	September 5, 1888	17 Apr 1975	May 13, 1952 to May 12, 1962	M.A, D. Litt. (Hony.), LL.D., D.C.L, Litt. D., D.L, F.R.S.L, F.B.A., Hony. Fellow, All Souls College (Oxford)

Important Points Need to Know

What qualification required to be elected as Vice President, a person must be an India citizen, age should be more than 35 years, not holding any office and most importantly, should be a member of Rajya Sabha.

Interested candidate has to make a security deposit of INR 15000 in Reserve Bank of India, Election Commission of India appointed returning officer who is responsible for conducting an election, the officer issued a public notice. Any person who is intending to contest for Election, required to be nominated by at least 20 members of Parliament as Proposers and 20 as seconders. All eligible candidates name are added to the ballot after scrutiny by returning officer. Returning officer declare results to the electoral college, then submit the final results to the Centraal Government ( Ministry of Law and Justice) and Election Commission of India thereafter, the central government publishes elected candidate name as Vice President of India, in the official Gazette.

Interesting Facts about Vice President of India

Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is the 3rd Vice President from State Andhra Pradesh, this list comprising VV Giri and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, both of them later became President.

Venkaiah Naidu had learnt Hindi in order to attract North India people and later he starts advocating Hindi as the National language

Venkaiah Naidu had played an essential role during 975-77 emergency, he protested against Indira Gandhi and was imprisoned by Indira government.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari was awarded Padma Shree in 1984

Mohammad Hamid Ansari was  Indian High Commissioner to Australia, Ambassador to the Saudi Arab, Afganistan, Iran and the United Arab Emirates and also permanent representative to the United Nation from India

Mohammad Hamid Ansari was Vice-Chancellor of the AMU(Aligarh Muslim University) from May 2000 to March 2002

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat referred as Rajasthan ka ek hi Singh” or  “Babosa” (Head of the family of Rajasthan)

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat from Janata Paty won 151 out of 200 seats in state assembly election conducted in 1977 and he elected as the first non-congress leader and later his government dismissed by Indira Gandhi in 1980

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the first and only one, who resigned from the post of Vice President on 21 July 2007 after losing the presidential election,

Source: (wikipedia.org, india.gov.in, vicepresidentofindia.nic.in)