<P> There have been 14 Presidents of India since the post was established when India was declared as a republic with the adoption of the Indian constitution in 1950 . Apart from these fourteen, three Acting Presidents have also been in office for short periods of time . Varahagiri Venkata Giri became the Acting President in 1969 after Zakir Husain, died in office . Giri was elected President a few months later . He remains the only person to have held office both as a President and Acting President . Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, is the only person to have held office for two terms . </P> <P> Seven Presidents have been members of a political party before being elected . Six of these were active party members of the Indian National Congress . The Janata Party has had one member, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who later became President . Two Presidents, Zakir Husain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, have died in office . Their Vice-Presidents served as Acting Presidents until a new President was elected . Following Zakir Husain's death, two acting Presidents held office until the new President, V.V. Giri, was elected . When Giri resigned to take part in the presidential elections, he was succeeded by Mohammad Hidayatullah as acting President . The 12th President, Pratibha Patil, is the first woman to serve as President of India, elected in 2007 . </P> <P> On 25 July 2017, Ram Nath Kovind took office as the 14th President of India . </P> <P> This list is numbered based on Presidents elected after winning an Indian Presidential election . The terms of Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Mohammad Hidayatullah, and Basappa Danappa Jatti, who served as Acting President, are therefore not numbered . The President of India does not represent any political party . The colours used in the table indicate the following: </P>

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