The document lists the chief guests for Republic Day celebrations in India from 1950 to 2012. It includes the name of the guest, their title/position, and the country they represented each year. Many years during this time period did not have a listed chief guest.
2. Year Guest Name Country
1950 President Sukarno Indonesia
1951 -
1952 -
1953 -
1954 King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Bhutan
Governor General Malik
1955 Pakistan
Ghulam Muhammad
1956 -
1957 -
People's Republic of
1958 Marshall Ye Jianying
China
1959 -
1960 President Kliment Voroshilov Soviet Union
3. United
1961 Queen Elizabeth II
Kingdom
1962 -
1963 King Norodom Sihanouk Cambodia
1964 -
Food and Agriculture Minister
1965 Pakistan
Rana Abdul Hamid
1966 -
1967 -
Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin Soviet Union
1968
President Josip Broz Tito Yugoslavia
1969 Prime Minister of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov Bulgaria
1970-
5. 1981 President Jose Lopez Portillo Mexico
1982 King Juan Carlos I Spain
1983 President Shehu Shagari Nigeria
1984 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck Bhutan
1985 President Raúl AlfonsÃn Argentina
Prime Minister Andreas
1986 Greece
Papandreou
1987 President Alan GarcÃa Peru
1988 President Junius Jayewardene Sri Lanka
General Secretary Nguyen Van
1989 Vietnam
Linh
Prime Minister Anerood
1990 Mauritius
Jugnauth
6. President Maumoon Abdul
1991 Maldives
Gayoom
1992 President Mário Soares Portugal
1993 Prime Minister John Major United Kingdom
1994 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong Singapore
1995 President Nelson Mandela South Africa
President Dr. Fernando Henrique
1996 Brazil
Cardoso
1997 Prime Minister Basdeo Panday Trinidad and Tobago
1998 President Jacques Chirac France
King
1999 Nepal
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
2000 President Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria
7. President
2001 Algeria
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
President
2002 Mauritius
Cassam Uteem
President
2003 Iran
Mohammed Khatami
2004President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Brazil
2005 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck Bhutan
King
2006 Saudi Arabia
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
2007 President Vladimir Putin Russia
2008 President Nicolas Sarkozy France
2009 President Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakhstan
2010 President Lee Myung Bak Republic of Korea
8. President Susilo
2011 Indonesia
Bambang Yudhoyono
Prime Minister Yingluck
2012 Thailand
Shinawatra