List of all Chief Guest on Indian Republic Day Parade: Every year India invites foreign leaders for the Republic Day parade, to improve the relations between the countries and show the diversity and unity present in the Indian culture.
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How Chief Guest is chosen for India’s Republic Day?
The Chief Guest at India’s Republic Day parade is accorded country’s highest honour in protocol terms but do you know how the Republic Day Chief Guest is chosen?
Six months prior to Republic Day, the Indian Government sends the invitation to either the Head of State or the Government subjected to the kind of relationship India has with the concerned country.
Before sending the invitation, the approval of the Indian Prime Minister is sought in addition to the clearance from the President of India.
Let’s have a look on the list of all the Chief Guests at Republic day parade
| A year and Invited by India’s Prime Minister | Guest Name and Country |
| Year: 2021 Prime Minister: Narendra Modi | President Chandrikapersad Santokhi Country: Suriname |
| Year: 2020 Prime Minister: Narendra Modi | President Jair Bolsonaro Country: Brazil |
| Year: 2019 Prime Minister: Narendra Modi | Cyril Ramaphosa Country: South Africa |
| Year: 2018 Prime Minister: Narendra Modi | Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc President Htin Kyaw President Rodrigo Roa Duterte President Halimah Yacob Country : Brunei Indonesia Laos Cambodia Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam |
| Year : 2017 Prime Minister : Narendra Modi | Crown Prince : Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan Country : United Arab Emirates |
| Year : 2016 Prime Minister : Narendra Modi | President : Francois Hollande Country : France |
| Year : 2015 Prime Minister : Narendra Modi | President : Barack Obama (First U.S. President to be invited) Country : USA |
| Year : 2014 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | Prime Minister : Shinzo Abe Country : Japan |
| Year : 2013 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | King : Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Country : Bhutan |
| Year : 2012 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | Prime minister : Yingluck Shinawatra Country : Thailand |
| Year : 2011 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | President : Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Country: Indonesia |
| Year : 2010 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | President : Lee Myung Bak Country : Republic of Korea |
| Year : 2009 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | President : Nursultan Nazarbayev Country : Kazakhstan |
| Year : 2008 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | President : Nicolas Sarkozy Country : France |
| Year : 2007 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | President : Vladimir Putin Country : Russia |
| Year : 2006 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | King : Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud Country : Saudi Arabia |
| Year : 2005 Prime Minister : Manmohan Singh | King : Jigme Singye Wangchuck Country : Bhutan |
| Year : 2004 Prime Minister : Atal Bihari Vajpayee | President : Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Country : Brazil |
| Year : 2003 Prime Minister : Atal Bihari Vajpayee | President : Mohammed Khatami Country : Iran |
| Year : 2002 Prime Minister : Atal Bihari Vajpayee | President : Cassam Uteem Country : Mauritius |
| Year : 2001 Prime Minister : Atal Bihari Vajpayee | President : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Country : Algeria |
| Year : 2000 Prime Minister : Atal Bihari Vajpayee | President : Olusegun Obasanjo Country : Nigeria |
| Year : 1999 Prime Minister : Atal Bihari Vajpayee | King : Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev Country : Nepal |
| Year : 1998 Prime Minister : Inder Kumar Gujral | President : Jacques Chirac Country : France |
| Year : 1997 Prime Minister : H. D. Deve Gowda | Prime Minister : Basdeo Panday Country : Trinidad and Tobago |
| Year : 1996 Prime Minister : P. V. Narasimha Rao | President : Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso Country : Brazil |
| Year : 1995 Prime Minister : P. V. Narasimha Rao | President : Nelson Mandela Country : South Africa |
| Year : 1994 Prime Minister : P. V. Narasimha Rao | Prime Minister : Goh Chok Tong Country : Singapore |
| Year : 1993 Prime Minister : P. V. Narasimha Rao | Prime Minister : John Major Country : United Kingdom |
| Year : 1992 Prime Minister : P. V. Narasimha Rao | President : Mário Soares Country : Portugal |
| Year : 1991 Prime Minister : Chandra Shekhar | President : Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Country : Maldives |
| Year : 1990 Prime Minister : V. P. Singh | Prime Minister : Anerood Jugnauth Country : Mauritius |
| Year : 1989 Prime Minister : Rajiv Gandhi | General Secretary : Nguyen Van Linh Country : Vietnam |
| Year : 1988 Prime Minister : Rajiv Gandhi | President : Junius Jayewardene Country : Sri Lanka |
| Year : 1987 Prime Minister : Rajiv Gandhi | President : Alan Garcia Country : Peru |
| Year : 1986 Prime Minister : Rajiv Gandhi | Prime Minister : Andreas Papandreou Country : Greece |
| Year : 1985 Prime Minister : Rajiv Gandhi | President : Raúl Alfonsín Country : Argentina |
| Year : 1984 Prime Minister : Indira Gandhi | King : Jigme Singye Wangchuck Country : Bhutan |
| Year : 1983 Prime Minister : Indira Gandhi | President : Shehu Shagari Country : Nigeria |
| Year : 1982 Prime Minister : Indira Gandhi | King : Juan Carlos I Country : Spain |
| Year : 1981 Prime Minister : Indira Gandhi | President : Jose Lopez Portillo Country : Mexico |
| Year : 1980 Prime Minister : Indira Gandhi | President : Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Country : France |
| Year : 1979 Prime Minister : Morarji Desai | Prime Minister : Malcolm Fraser Country : Australia |
| Year : 1978 Prime Minister : Morarji Desai | President : Patrick Hillery Country : Ireland |
| Year : 1977 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | First Secretary : Edward Gierek Country : Poland |
| Year : 1976 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister : Jacques Chirac Country : France |
| Year : 1975 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | President : Kenneth Kaunda Country : Zambia |
| Year : 1974 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | 1. President, Josip Broz Tito Country : Yugoslavia 2. Prime Minister : Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike Country : Yugoslavia |
| Year : 1973 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | President : Mobutu Sese Seko Country : Zaire |
| Year : 1972 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister : Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Country : Mauritius |
| Year : 1971 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | President : Julius Nyerere Country : Tanzania |
| Year : 1970 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | _ |
| Year : 1969 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister : Todor Zhivkov Country : Bulgaria |
| Year : 1968 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | 1.Prime Minister, Alexei Kosygin Country : Soviet Union 2.President : Josip Broz Tito Country : Yugoslavia |
| Year : 1967 Prime Minister :Indira Gandhi | _ |
| Year : 1966 Prime Minister :Gulzarilal Nanda | _ |
| Year : 1965 Prime Minister :Lal Bahadur Shastri | Food and Agriculture Minister : Rana Abdul Hamid Country : Pakistan |
| Year : 1964 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1963 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | King : Norodom Sihanouk Country : Cambodia |
| Year : 1962 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1961 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | Queen : Elizabeth II Country : United Kingdom |
| Year : 1960 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | President : Kliment Voroshilov Country : Soviet Union |
| Year : 1959 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1958 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | Marshall : Ye Jianying Country : People’s Republic of China |
| Year : 1957 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1956 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1955 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | Governor General : Malik Ghulam Muhammad Country : Pakistan |
| Year : 1954 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | King : Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Country : Bhutan |
| Year : 1953 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1952 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1951 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | _ |
| Year : 1950 Prime Minister : Jawaharlal Nehru | President : Sukarno Country : Indonesia |
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