List of Chief Guests: India is going to celebrate its Republic Day on 26 January. Every year a chef guest is invited to mark this occasion special. This year India Invite the President of Egypt to the Republic Day parade going to Delhi. We have here to know about the all guest invited on the occasion of the Republic Day parade. Let’s have a look at the list of all guests on the Republic Day parade.
List of the Chief Guests at the Republic Day Parade (1950-2023)
|
Year |
Guest Name |
Designation |
Country |
|
1950 |
Sukarno |
President |
Indonesia |
|
1951 |
Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah |
King |
Nepal |
|
1952 |
No invitation |
|
— |
|
1953 |
No invitation |
|
— |
|
1954 |
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck |
King |
Bhutan |
|
1955 |
Malik Ghulam Muhammad |
Governor-General |
Pakistan |
|
1956 |
Kotaro Tanaka |
Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler Chief Justice |
United Kingdom Japan |
|
1957 |
Georgy Zhukov |
Minister of Defence |
Soviet Union |
|
1958 |
Ye Jianying |
Marshall |
China |
|
1959 |
Prince Philip |
Duke of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom |
|
1960 |
Kliment Voroshilov |
President |
USSR |
|
1961 |
Elizabeth II |
Queen |
United Kingdom |
|
1962 |
Viggo Kampmann |
Prime Minister |
Denmark |
|
1963 |
Norodom Sihanouk |
King |
Cambodia |
|
1964 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten |
Chief of Defence Staff |
United Kingdom |
|
1965 |
Rana Abdul Hamid |
Food and Agriculture Minister |
Pakistan |
|
1966 |
No invitation |
|
No invitation |
|
1967 |
Mohammed Zahir Shah |
King |
Afghanistan |
|
1968 |
Alexei Kosygin |
Prime Minister |
USSR |
|
Josip Broz Tito |
President |
SFR Yugoslavia |
|
|
1969 |
Todor Zhivkov |
Prime Minister |
Bulgaria |
|
1970 |
Baudouin |
King of the Belgians |
Belgium |
|
1971 |
Julius Nyerere |
President |
Tanzania |
|
1972 |
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam |
Prime Minister |
Mauritius |
|
1973 |
Mobutu Sese Seko |
President |
Zaire |
|
1974 |
Josip Broz Tito |
President |
SFR Yugoslavia |
|
Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike |
Prime Minister |
Sri Lanka |
|
|
1975 |
Kenneth Kaunda |
President |
Zambia |
|
1976 |
Jacques Chirac |
Prime Minister |
France |
|
1977 |
Edward Gierek |
First Secretary |
Poland |
|
1978 |
Patrick Hillery |
President |
Ireland |
|
1979 |
Malcolm Fraser |
Prime Minister |
Australia |
|
1980 |
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing |
President |
France |
|
1981 |
José López Portillo |
President |
Mexico |
|
1982 |
Juan Carlos I |
King |
Spain |
|
1983 |
Shehu Shagari |
President |
Nigeria |
|
1984 |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck |
King |
Bhutan |
|
1985 |
Raúl Alfonsín |
President |
Argentina |
|
1986 |
Andreas Papandreou |
Prime Minister |
Greece |
|
1987 |
Alan García |
President |
Peru |
|
1988 |
Junius Jayewardene |
President |
Sri Lanka |
|
1989 |
Nguyen Van Linh |
General Secretary |
Viet Nam |
|
1990 |
Anerood Jugnauth |
Prime Minister |
Mauritius |
|
1991 |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom |
President |
Maldives |
|
1992 |
Mário Soares |
President |
Portugal |
|
1993 |
John Major |
Prime Minister |
United Kingdom |
|
1994 |
Goh Chok Tong |
Prime Minister |
Singapore |
|
1995 |
Nelson Mandela |
President |
South Africa |
|
1996 |
Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
President |
Brazil |
|
1997 |
Basdeo Panday |
Prime Minister |
Trinidad and Tobago |
|
1998 |
Jacques Chirac |
President |
France |
|
1999 |
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev |
King |
Nepal |
|
2000 |
Olusegun Obasanjo |
President |
Nigeria |
|
2001 |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika |
President |
Algeria |
|
2002 |
Cassam Uteem |
President |
Mauritius |
|
2003 |
Mohammed Khatami |
President |
Iran |
|
2004 |
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva |
President |
Brazil |
|
2005 |
Jigme Singye Wangchuck |
King |
Bhutan |
|
2006 |
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud[ |
King |
Saudi Arabia |
|
2007 |
Vladimir Putin |
President |
Russia |
|
2008 |
Nicolas Sarkozy |
President |
France |
|
2009 |
Nursultan Nazarbayev |
President |
Kazakhstan |
|
2010 |
Lee Myung Bak |
President |
Republic of Korea |
|
2011 |
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono |
President |
Indonesia |
|
2012 |
Yingluck Shinawatra |
Prime Minister |
Thailand |
|
2013 |
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck |
King |
Bhutan |
|
2014 |
Shinzo Abe |
Prime Minister |
Japan |
|
2015 |
Barack Obama |
President |
United States |
|
2016 |
François Hollande |
President |
France |
|
2017 |
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed |
Crown Prince |
United Arab Emirates |
|
2018 |
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Joko Widodo Thongloun Sisoulith Prime Minister Hun Sen Najib Razak President Htin Kyaw Rodrigo Roa Duterte Halimah Yacob Prayuth Chan-ocha Nguyễn Xuân Phúc |
|
Brunei Indonesia Laos Cambodia Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam |
|
2019 |
Cyril Ramaphosa |
President |
South Africa |
|
2020 |
Jair Bolsonaro |
President |
Brazil |
|
2021 |
Boris Johnson (cancelled his visit) |
Prime Minister |
United Kingdom |
|
2022 |
– |
|
– |
|
2023 |
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi |
President |
Egypt |