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List of chief guests at Delhi Republic Day parade

January 01, 1970

Since 1950, India has been hosting head of state or government of another country as the state guest of honour for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. During 1950–1954, Republic Day celebrations were organised at different venues (like Irwin Amphitheatre, Kingsway, Red Fort and Ramlila Maidan). It was only starting 1955 when the parade in its present form was organised at Rajpath.[1] The guest country is chosen after a deliberation of strategic, economic and political interests. During 1950s–1970s, a number of Non-Aligned Movement and Eastern Bloc countries were hosted by India. In 1968 and 1974, India played host to two countries on the same Republic Day.

Countries invited as chief guests for the Republic Day parade. Yugoslavia (twice invited) has not been depicted in the map.
  6 times (France)
  5 times (United Kingdom)
  4 times (Bhutan, Soviet Union/Russia)
  Thrice (Brazil, Indonesia, Mauritius)
  Twice (Cambodia, Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam)
  Once
  Never invited

By continent, the invitations break up as follows:

Continent Invitations Countries
Asia 36 Afghanistan, Bhutan (4 times), Brunei, Cambodia (twice), China, Indonesia (thrice), Iran, Japan (twice), Kazakhstan, Laos, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal (twice), Pakistan (twice), Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore (twice), South Korea, Sri Lanka (twice), Thailand (twice), United Arab Emirates, Vietnam (twice)
Europe 25 Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France (6 times), Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Soviet Union/Russia (4 times), Spain, Yugoslavia (twice), United Kingdom (5 times)
Africa 12 Algeria, Egypt, Mauritius (thrice), Nigeria (twice), South Africa (twice), Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia
South America 5 Argentina, Brazil (thrice), Peru
North America 3 Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States
Oceania 1 Australia

By geographic region, the invitations break up as follows:

Region Invitations Countries
South Asia 13 Afghanistan, Bhutan (4 times), Maldives, Nepal (twice), Pakistan (twice), Sri Lanka (twice)
Central Asia 1 Kazakhstan
East Asia 4 China, Japan (twice), South Korea
Southeast Asia 16 Brunei, Cambodia (twice), Indonesia (thrice), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore (twice), Thailand (twice), Vietnam (twice)
West Asia 3 Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
North Africa 2 Algeria, Egypt
West Africa 2 Nigeria (twice)
Central Africa 1 Zaire
Southern Africa 6 South Africa (twice), Mauritius (thrice), Zambia
East Africa 1 Tanzania
Eastern Europe 8 Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia (twice), Soviet Union/Russia (4 times)
Western Europe 17 Belgium, Denmark, France (6 times), Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom (5 times)
Northern America 2 United States, Mexico
Caribbean 1 Trinidad and Tobago
South America 5 Argentina, Brazil (thrice), Peru
Oceania 1 Australia

List of chief guests edit

Year Portrait Chief Guest Country Designation Note Host
1950   Sukarno[2]   Indonesia President of Indonesia Rajendra Prasad
1951   Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah[3]   Nepal King of Nepal
1952
No information available
1953
1954   Jigme Dorji Wangchuck[4]   Bhutan King of Bhutan Rajendra Prasad
1955   Malik Ghulam Muhammad[5]   Pakistan Governor-General of Pakistan First guest for parade at Rajpath[6]
1956   Rab Butler   United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Two guests[7][note 1]
  Kōtarō Tanaka   Japan Chief Justice of Japan
1957   Georgy Zhukov[9]   Soviet Union Minister of Defence
1958   Ye Jianying[10]   China Marshal of the People's Liberation Army
1959   Philip[11][12][13]   United Kingdom Consort of Queen Elizabeth II 2nd invitation
1960   Kliment Voroshilov[14]   Soviet Union Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 2nd invitation
1961   Elizabeth II[15]   United Kingdom Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms 3rd invitation[note 2]
1962   Viggo Kampmann[16]   Denmark Prime Minister of Denmark [note 3]
1963   Norodom Sihanouk[18]   Cambodia King of Cambodia Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1964   Louis Mountbatten[8]   United Kingdom Chief of the Defence Staff 4th invitation[note 1]
1965 Rana Abdul Hamid   Pakistan Minister of Food and Agriculture 2nd invitation
1966
No information available[note 4]
1967   Mohammed Zahir Shah[20]   Afghanistan King of Afghanistan [note 5] Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1968   Alexei Kosygin   Soviet Union Chairman of the Council of Ministers 3rd invitation Two guests[23] Zakir Husain
  Josip Broz Tito   Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia
1969   Todor Zhivkov[24]   Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1970   Baudouin[25][26]   Belgium King of Belgium [note 6] V. V. Giri
1971   Julius Nyerere[27]   Tanzania President of Tanzania
1972   Seewoosagur Ramgoolam[28]   Mauritius Prime Minister of Mauritius
1973   Mobutu Sese Seko[29]   Zaire President of Zaire
1974   Josip Broz Tito   Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia 2nd invitation Two guests[30]
  Sirimavo Bandaranaike   Sri Lanka Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
1975   Kenneth Kaunda[31]   Zambia President of Zambia Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
1976   Jacques Chirac[32]   France Prime Minister of France
1977   Edward Gierek[33]   Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
1978   Patrick Hillery[34]   Ireland President of Ireland Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
1979   Malcolm Fraser[35]   Australia Prime Minister of Australia
1980   Valéry Giscard d'Estaing   France President of France 2nd invitation
1981   Jose Lopez Portillo[36]   Mexico President of Mexico
1982   Juan Carlos I[37]   Spain King of Spain
1983   Shehu Shagari[38]   Nigeria President of Nigeria Zail Singh
1984   Jigme Singye Wangchuck[39]   Bhutan King of Bhutan 2nd invitation
1985   Raúl Alfonsín[40]   Argentina President of Argentina
1986   Andreas Papandreou[41]   Greece Prime Minister of Greece
1987   Alan Garcia[42]   Peru President of Peru
1988   J. R. Jayewardene[43]   Sri Lanka President of Sri Lanka 2nd invitation Ramaswamy Venkataraman
1989   Nguyễn Văn Linh[44]   Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
1990   Anerood Jugnauth[45]   Mauritius Prime Minister of Mauritius 2nd invitation
1991   Maumoon Abdul Gayoom[46]   Maldives President of the Maldives
1992   Mário Soares[46]   Portugal President of Portugal
1993   John Major[46]   United Kingdom Prime Minister of United Kingdom 5th invitation Shankar Dayal Sharma
1994   Goh Chok Tong[46]   Singapore Prime Minister of Singapore
1995   Nelson Mandela[47]   South Africa President of South Africa
1996   Fernando Henrique Cardoso[46]   Brazil President of Brazil
1997   Basdeo Panday[46]   Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1998   Jacques Chirac[46]   France President of France 3rd invitation K. R. Narayanan
1999   Birendra Bir Bikram Shah[46]   Nepal King of Nepal 2nd invitation
2000   Olusegun Obasanjo[46]   Nigeria President of Nigeria 2nd invitation
2001   Abdelaziz Bouteflika[46]   Algeria President of Algeria
2002   Cassam Uteem[46]   Mauritius President of Mauritius 3rd invitation
2003   Mohammed Khatami[46]   Iran President of Iran A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2004   Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva[46]   Brazil President of Brazil 2nd invitation
2005   Jigme Singye Wangchuck[46]   Bhutan King of Bhutan 3rd invitation
2006   Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud[46]   Saudi Arabia King of Saudi Arabia
2007   Vladimir Putin[46]   Russia President of Russia 4th invitation
2008   Nicolas Sarkozy[46]   France President of France 4th invitation Pratibha Patil
2009   Nursultan Nazarbayev[46]   Kazakhstan President of Kazakhstan
2010   Lee Myung Bak[48]   South Korea President of South Korea
2011   Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono[49][50]   Indonesia President of Indonesia 2nd invitation
2012   Yingluck Shinawatra[51]   Thailand Prime Minister of Thailand
2013   Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck[52]   Bhutan King of Bhutan 4th invitation Pranab Mukherjee
2014   Shinzo Abe[53]   Japan Prime Minister of Japan 2nd invitation
2015   Barack Obama[54]   United States President of the United States
2016   François Hollande   France President of France 5th invitation[55]
2017   Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan[56]   United Arab Emirates Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
2018   Hassanal Bolkiah   Brunei Sultan of Brunei Ten guests (heads of the ASEAN states)[57] Ram Nath Kovind
  Hun Sen   Cambodia Prime Minister of Cambodia 2nd invitation
  Joko Widodo   Indonesia President of Indonesia 3rd invitation
  Thongloun Sisoulith   Laos Prime Minister of Laos
  Najib Razak   Malaysia Prime Minister of Malaysia
  Aung San Suu Kyi   Myanmar State Counsellor of Myanmar
  Rodrigo Duterte   Philippines President of the Philippines
  Lee Hsien Loong   Singapore Prime Minister of Singapore 2nd invitation
  Prayut Chan-o-cha   Thailand Prime Minister of Thailand 2nd invitation
  Nguyễn Xuân Phúc   Vietnam Prime Minister of Vietnam 2nd invitation
2019   Cyril Ramaphosa[58][59]   South Africa President of South Africa 2nd invitation
2020   Jair Bolsonaro[60]   Brazil President of Brazil 3rd invitation
2021
No chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic[61][62][note 7][note 8]
2022
2023   Abdel Fattah el-Sisi[66]   Egypt President of Egypt Droupadi Murmu
2024   Emmanuel Macron[67]   France President of France 6th invitation

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b On each of these occasions, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma from United Kingdom was also the official guest for the parade.[7][8]
  2. ^ Prince Philip also accompanied Queen Elizabeth II during the parade.[15]
  3. ^ Attended Republic Day in Madras (Chennai).[17]
  4. ^ No invitations were sent out possibly due to the demise of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on 11 January 1966 in Tashkent. The new government headed by Indira Gandhi was sworn in on 24 January 1966 (only two days before the Republic Day).[19]
  5. ^ For the first time, the President of India (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan) could not take the salute at the Republic Day parade due to ill-health.[21] Mohammed Zahir Shah arrived on 28 January.[22]
  6. ^ Attended only the Beating Retreat.[25][26]
  7. ^ An invitation for 2021 was sent to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but after a few weeks he cancelled his visit, citing the need to oversee pandemic response in the United Kingdom.[63]
  8. ^ Invitation for 2022 were sent to leaders of five Central Asian nations – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan, Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan and Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan. But due to surge in COVID-19 cases and the new Omicron variant being on the rise, Indian government decided not to host foreign dignitaries.[64][65]

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continent the invitations break up as follows Continent Invitations Countries Asia 36 Afghanistan Bhutan 4 times Brunei Cambodia twice China Indonesia thrice Iran Japan twice Kazakhstan Laos Maldives Malaysia Myanmar Nepal twice Pakistan twice Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore twice South Korea Sri Lanka twice Thailand twice United Arab Emirates Vietnam twice Europe 25 Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France 6 times Greece Ireland Poland Portugal Soviet Union Russia 4 times Spain Yugoslavia twice United Kingdom 5 times Africa 12 Algeria Egypt Mauritius thrice Nigeria twice South Africa twice Tanzania Zaire Zambia South America 5 Argentina Brazil thrice Peru North America 3 Mexico Trinidad and Tobago United States Oceania 1 Australia By geographic region the invitations break up as follows Region Invitations Countries South Asia 13 Afghanistan Bhutan 4 times Maldives Nepal twice Pakistan twice Sri Lanka twice Central Asia 1 Kazakhstan East Asia 4 China Japan twice South Korea Southeast Asia 16 Brunei Cambodia twice Indonesia thrice Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore twice Thailand twice Vietnam twice West Asia 3 Iran Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates North Africa 2 Algeria Egypt West Africa 2 Nigeria twice Central Africa 1 Zaire Southern Africa 6 South Africa twice Mauritius thrice Zambia East Africa 1 Tanzania Eastern Europe 8 Bulgaria Poland Yugoslavia twice Soviet Union Russia 4 times Western Europe 17 Belgium Denmark France 6 times Greece Ireland Portugal Spain United Kingdom 5 times Northern America 2 United States Mexico Caribbean 1 Trinidad and Tobago South America 5 Argentina Brazil thrice Peru Oceania 1 AustraliaList of chief guests editYear Portrait Chief Guest Country Designation Note Host 1950 nbsp Sukarno 2 nbsp Indonesia President of Indonesia Rajendra Prasad 1951 nbsp Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah 3 nbsp Nepal King of Nepal 1952 No information available 1953 1954 nbsp Jigme Dorji Wangchuck 4 nbsp Bhutan King of Bhutan Rajendra Prasad 1955 nbsp Malik Ghulam Muhammad 5 nbsp Pakistan Governor General of Pakistan First guest for parade at Rajpath 6 1956 nbsp Rab Butler nbsp United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Two guests 7 note 1 nbsp Kōtarō Tanaka nbsp Japan Chief Justice of Japan 1957 nbsp Georgy Zhukov 9 nbsp Soviet Union Minister of Defence 1958 nbsp Ye Jianying 10 nbsp China Marshal of the People s Liberation Army 1959 nbsp Philip 11 12 13 nbsp United Kingdom Consort of Queen Elizabeth II 2nd invitation 1960 nbsp Kliment Voroshilov 14 nbsp Soviet Union Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 2nd invitation 1961 nbsp Elizabeth II 15 nbsp United Kingdom Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms 3rd invitation note 2 1962 nbsp Viggo Kampmann 16 nbsp Denmark Prime Minister of Denmark note 3 1963 nbsp Norodom Sihanouk 18 nbsp Cambodia King of Cambodia Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1964 nbsp Louis Mountbatten 8 nbsp United Kingdom Chief of the Defence Staff 4th invitation note 1 1965 Rana Abdul Hamid nbsp Pakistan Minister of Food and Agriculture 2nd invitation 1966 No information available note 4 1967 nbsp Mohammed Zahir Shah 20 nbsp Afghanistan King of Afghanistan note 5 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1968 nbsp Alexei Kosygin nbsp Soviet Union Chairman of the Council of Ministers 3rd invitation Two guests 23 Zakir Husain nbsp Josip Broz Tito nbsp Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia 1969 nbsp Todor Zhivkov 24 nbsp Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1970 nbsp Baudouin 25 26 nbsp Belgium King of Belgium note 6 V V Giri 1971 nbsp Julius Nyerere 27 nbsp Tanzania President of Tanzania 1972 nbsp Seewoosagur Ramgoolam 28 nbsp Mauritius Prime Minister of Mauritius 1973 nbsp Mobutu Sese Seko 29 nbsp Zaire President of Zaire 1974 nbsp Josip Broz Tito nbsp Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia 2nd invitation Two guests 30 nbsp Sirimavo Bandaranaike nbsp Sri Lanka Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1975 nbsp Kenneth Kaunda 31 nbsp Zambia President of Zambia Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1976 nbsp Jacques Chirac 32 nbsp France Prime Minister of France 1977 nbsp Edward Gierek 33 nbsp Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party 1978 nbsp Patrick Hillery 34 nbsp Ireland President of Ireland Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 1979 nbsp Malcolm Fraser 35 nbsp Australia Prime Minister of Australia 1980 nbsp Valery Giscard d Estaing nbsp France President of France 2nd invitation 1981 nbsp Jose Lopez Portillo 36 nbsp Mexico President of Mexico 1982 nbsp Juan Carlos I 37 nbsp Spain King of Spain 1983 nbsp Shehu Shagari 38 nbsp Nigeria President of Nigeria Zail Singh 1984 nbsp Jigme Singye Wangchuck 39 nbsp Bhutan King of Bhutan 2nd invitation 1985 nbsp Raul Alfonsin 40 nbsp Argentina President of Argentina 1986 nbsp Andreas Papandreou 41 nbsp Greece Prime Minister of Greece 1987 nbsp Alan Garcia 42 nbsp Peru President of Peru 1988 nbsp J R Jayewardene 43 nbsp Sri Lanka President of Sri Lanka 2nd invitation Ramaswamy Venkataraman 1989 nbsp Nguyễn Văn Linh 44 nbsp Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam 1990 nbsp Anerood Jugnauth 45 nbsp Mauritius Prime Minister of Mauritius 2nd invitation 1991 nbsp Maumoon Abdul Gayoom 46 nbsp Maldives President of the Maldives 1992 nbsp Mario Soares 46 nbsp Portugal President of Portugal 1993 nbsp John Major 46 nbsp United Kingdom Prime Minister of United Kingdom 5th invitation Shankar Dayal Sharma 1994 nbsp Goh Chok Tong 46 nbsp Singapore Prime Minister of Singapore 1995 nbsp Nelson Mandela 47 nbsp South Africa President of South Africa 1996 nbsp Fernando Henrique Cardoso 46 nbsp Brazil President of Brazil 1997 nbsp Basdeo Panday 46 nbsp Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1998 nbsp Jacques Chirac 46 nbsp France President of France 3rd invitation K R Narayanan 1999 nbsp Birendra Bir Bikram Shah 46 nbsp Nepal King of Nepal 2nd invitation 2000 nbsp Olusegun Obasanjo 46 nbsp Nigeria President of Nigeria 2nd invitation 2001 nbsp Abdelaziz Bouteflika 46 nbsp Algeria President of Algeria 2002 nbsp Cassam Uteem 46 nbsp Mauritius President of Mauritius 3rd invitation 2003 nbsp Mohammed Khatami 46 nbsp Iran President of Iran A P J Abdul Kalam 2004 nbsp Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 46 nbsp Brazil President of Brazil 2nd invitation 2005 nbsp Jigme Singye Wangchuck 46 nbsp Bhutan King of Bhutan 3rd invitation 2006 nbsp Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud 46 nbsp Saudi Arabia King of Saudi Arabia 2007 nbsp Vladimir Putin 46 nbsp Russia President of Russia 4th invitation 2008 nbsp Nicolas Sarkozy 46 nbsp France President of France 4th invitation Pratibha Patil 2009 nbsp Nursultan Nazarbayev 46 nbsp Kazakhstan President of Kazakhstan 2010 nbsp Lee Myung Bak 48 nbsp South Korea President of South Korea 2011 nbsp Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 49 50 nbsp Indonesia President of Indonesia 2nd invitation 2012 nbsp Yingluck Shinawatra 51 nbsp Thailand Prime Minister of Thailand 2013 nbsp Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck 52 nbsp Bhutan King of Bhutan 4th invitation Pranab Mukherjee 2014 nbsp Shinzo Abe 53 nbsp Japan Prime Minister of Japan 2nd invitation 2015 nbsp Barack Obama 54 nbsp United States President of the United States 2016 nbsp Francois Hollande nbsp France President of France 5th invitation 55 2017 nbsp Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan 56 nbsp United Arab Emirates Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi 2018 nbsp Hassanal Bolkiah nbsp Brunei Sultan of Brunei Ten guests heads of the ASEAN states 57 Ram Nath Kovind nbsp Hun Sen nbsp Cambodia Prime Minister of Cambodia 2nd invitation nbsp Joko Widodo nbsp Indonesia President of Indonesia 3rd invitation nbsp Thongloun Sisoulith nbsp Laos Prime Minister of Laos nbsp Najib Razak nbsp Malaysia Prime Minister of Malaysia nbsp Aung San Suu Kyi nbsp Myanmar State Counsellor of Myanmar nbsp Rodrigo Duterte nbsp Philippines President of the Philippines nbsp Lee Hsien Loong nbsp Singapore Prime Minister of Singapore 2nd invitation nbsp Prayut Chan o cha nbsp Thailand Prime Minister of Thailand 2nd invitation nbsp Nguyễn Xuan Phuc nbsp Vietnam Prime Minister of Vietnam 2nd invitation 2019 nbsp Cyril Ramaphosa 58 59 nbsp South Africa President of South Africa 2nd invitation 2020 nbsp Jair Bolsonaro 60 nbsp Brazil President of Brazil 3rd invitation 2021 No chief guest due to COVID 19 pandemic 61 62 note 7 note 8 2022 2023 nbsp Abdel Fattah el Sisi 66 nbsp Egypt President of Egypt Droupadi Murmu 2024 nbsp Emmanuel Macron 67 nbsp France President of France 6th invitationNotes edit a b On each of these occasions Edwina Mountbatten Countess Mountbatten of Burma from United Kingdom was also the official guest for the parade 7 8 Prince Philip also accompanied Queen Elizabeth II during the parade 15 Attended Republic Day in Madras Chennai 17 No invitations were sent out possibly due to the demise of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on 11 January 1966 in Tashkent The new government headed by Indira Gandhi was sworn in on 24 January 1966 only two days before the Republic Day 19 For the first time the President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan could not take the salute at the Republic Day parade due to ill health 21 Mohammed Zahir Shah arrived on 28 January 22 Attended only the Beating Retreat 25 26 An invitation for 2021 was sent to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but after a few weeks he cancelled his visit citing the need to oversee pandemic response in the United Kingdom 63 Invitation for 2022 were sent to leaders of five Central Asian nations Kassym Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan and Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan But due to surge in COVID 19 cases and the new Omicron variant being on the rise Indian government decided not to host foreign dignitaries 64 65 References edit List of all Chief Guests on Indian Republic Day Parades 1950 2021 Jagran Josh Retrieved 25 January 2021 Republic Day celebrations President Pranab Mukherjee tweets images from 1950 onwards The Economic Times 25 July 2017 India President of 18 January 2015 King 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