CHIEF GUESTS INVITED IN INDIAN REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS 1950-2018
Here is the list of chief guests from different countries who have been invited by Indian government at Republic Day Parades at the Rajpath. Know the name of first chief guest to latest chief guest invited on republic day celebration of India.
Year
|
Guest Name
|
Country
|
2018
|
Leaders of 10 Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (
|
|
2017
|
Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed
Al Nahyan
|
Abu Dhabi
|
2016
|
President, Francois Hollande
(5th invitation)
|
France
|
2015
|
President, Barack Obama
(First U.S. President to
be invited)
|
USA
|
2014
|
Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe
|
Japan
|
2013
|
King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
(4th invitation)
|
Bhutan
|
2012
|
Prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra
|
Thailand
|
2011
|
President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
(2nd invitation)
|
Indonesia
|
2010
|
President, Lee Myung Bak
|
Republic of Korea
|
2009
|
President, Nursultan Nazarbayev
|
Kazakhstan
|
2008
|
President, Nicolas Sarkozy
|
France
|
2007
|
President, Vladimir Putin
(3rd invitation)
|
Russia
|
2006
|
King, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
|
Saudi Arabia
|
2005
|
King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck
|
Bhutan
|
2004
|
President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
|
Brazil
|
2003
|
President, Mohammed Khatami
|
Iran
|
2002
|
President, Cassam Uteem
(3rd invitation)
|
Mauritius
|
2001
|
President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika
|
Algeria
|
2000
|
President, Olusegun Obasanjo
(2nd invitation)
|
Nigeria
|
1999
|
King, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
(2nd invitation)
|
Nepal
|
1998
|
President, Jacques Chirac
|
France
|
1997
|
Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday
|
Trinidad and Tobago
|
1996
|
President, Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
|
Brazil
|
1995
|
President, Nelson Mandela
|
South Africa
|
1994
|
Prime Minister, Goh Chok Tong
|
Singapore
|
1993
|
Prime Minister, John Major
(2nd invitation)
|
United Kingdom
|
1992
|
President, Mário Soares
|
Portugal
|
1991
|
President, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
|
Maldives
|
1990
|
Prime Minister, Anerood Jugnauth
|
Mauritius
|
1989
|
General Secretary, Nguyen Van Linh
|
Vietnam
|
1988
|
President, Junius Jayewardene
|
Sri Lanka
|
1987
|
President, Alan Garcia
|
Peru
|
1986
|
Prime Minister, Andreas Papandreou
|
Greece
|
1985
|
President, Raúl Alfonsín
|
Argentina
|
1984
|
King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck
|
Bhutan
|
1983
|
President, Shehu Shagari
|
Nigeria
|
1982
|
King, Juan Carlos I
|
Spain
|
1981
|
President, Jose Lopez Portillo
|
Mexico
|
1980
|
President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
|
France
|
1979
|
Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser
|
Australia
|
1978
|
President, Patrick Hillery
|
Ireland
|
1977
|
First Secretary, Edward Gierek
|
Poland
|
1976
|
Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac
|
France
|
1975
|
President, Kenneth Kaunda
|
Zambia
|
1974
|
President, Josip Broz Tito
(2nd invitation)
|
Yugoslavia
|
Prime Minister, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias
Bandaranaike
|
Sri Lanka
|
|
1973
|
President, Mobutu Sese Seko
|
Zaire
|
1972
|
Prime Minister, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
|
Mauritius
|
1971
|
President, Julius Nyerere
|
Tanzania
|
1970
|
-
|
|
1969
|
Prime Minister, Todor Zhivkov
|
Bulgaria
|
1968
|
Prime Minister, Alexei Kosygin
(2nd invitation)
|
Soviet Union
|
President, Josip Broz Tito
|
Yugoslavia
|
|
1967
|
-
|
|
1966
|
-
|
|
1965
|
Food and Agriculture Minister, Rana Abdul
Hamid
(2nd invitation)
|
Pakistan
|
1964
|
-
|
|
1963
|
King, Norodom Sihanouk
|
Cambodia
|
1962
|
-
|
|
1961
|
Queen, Elizabeth II
|
United Kingdom
|
1960
|
President, Kliment Voroshilov
|
Soviet Union
|
1959
|
-
|
|
1958
|
Marshall Ye Jianying
|
People’s Republic of China
|
1957
|
-
|
|
1956
|
-
|
|
1955
|
Governor General, Malik Ghulam Muhammad
(First guest for parade at Rajpath)
|
Pakistan
|
1954
|
King, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
|
Bhutan
|
1953
|
-
|
|
1952
|
-
|
|
1951
|
-
|
|
1950
|
President, Sukarno
|
Indonesia
|
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