Varahagiri Venkata Giri, known as V.V. was an Indian political leader and the fourth President of India. Through this article, let us know about former President V. Some things about ‘V. Giri’.
V V Giri was born on August 10, 1894 in an ordinary Telugu Brahmin family in Berhampur, Odisha, India. His father, Varahagiri Venkata Jogaiah Pantulu, was a distinguished and prosperous lawyer. Giri completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown.
After that, to study law, V.V. Giri went to University College, Dublin in 1913. In the same year he met Gandhiji, who deeply influenced Giri. After meeting Gandhiji he realized that freedom struggle was more important than law.
In college, Geary joined the Sinn Féin movement which led to his expulsion from Ireland in 1916, preventing him from completing his law degree. The Sinn Féin movement was actually the Irish independence and labor movement. It was the revolutionary ideas of people like De Valera, Collins, Pirie, Desmond Fitzgerald, McNeill and Connolly, whom Giri met personally, that influenced him to participate in such movements in India. After this, V.V. Giri returned to India and started actively participating in the labor movement.
V.V. Giri : A Brief Biography
| Name | Varahgiri Venkata Giri |
| Date of Birth | 10 August 1894 |
| Place of Birth | Barhampur, Ganjam District, Orissa |
| Father’s Name | V.V Jogaya Pantlu |
| Mother’s Name | Subhadramma |
| Education | 1/ Khalikot College, Madras University, Chennai 2/ National University of Ireland, Dublin |
| Spouse’s Name | Saraswati Bai |
| Award | 1/1975 – Bharat Ratna Award |
| Death | June 24,1980 |
V.V. Giri : Timeline
- 1894: V.V. Giri was born in Berhampur.
- 1913: Joined University College Dublin.
- 1916: Expelled from Ireland.
- 1934: Became a member of the Imperial Legislative Assembly.
- 1936: Stood for Madras general election.
- 1937: Inducted as Labor Minister in the Congress Cabinet in Madras.
- 1942: Joined the Quit India Movement.
- 1947: Appointed High Commissioner of Ceylon.
- 1952: Elected to the Lok Sabha and became a member of the Union Cabinet.
- 1957: Indian Society of Labor Economics established; Appointed the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
- 1960: Appointed as the Governor of Kerala.
- 1965: Appointed as the Governor of Mysore.
- 1967: Elected as Vice President of India.
- 1969: Became the President of India.
- 1975: Bharat Ratna recipient.
- 1980: Died in Chennai.
List of Indian President
| Name | Tenure |
| Rajendra Prasad | |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | May 1962 – 13 May 1967 |
| Zakir Hussain | May 1967 – 3 May 1969 |
| VV Giri (Acting President) | May 1969 – 20 July 1969 |
| Mohammad Hidayatullah (Acting President) | July 1969 to 24 August 1969 |
| V.V Giri | August 1969 – 24 August 1974 |
| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | August 1974 – 11 February 1977 |
| Basappa Danappa Jatti (Acting President) | February 1977 – 25 July 1977 |
| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | July 1977 – 25 July 1982 |
| Giani Zail Singh | July 1982 – 25 July 1987 |
| R Venkataraman | July 1987 – 25 July 1992 |
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | July 1992 – 25 July 1997 |
| K R Narayanan | July 1997 – 25 July 2002 |
| APJ Abdul Kalam | July 2002 – 25 July 2007 |
| Pratibha Patil | July 2007 – 25 July 2012 |
| Pranab Mukherjee | July – 25 July 2017 |
| Ram Nath Kovind | July 2017 – 21 July 2022 |
| Draupadi Murmu | 21 July 2022-Incumbent |
Bharat Ratna Award List
| Year | Recipients | About |
| Bharat Ratna 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari | Activist, statesman, and lawyer |
| Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | India’s first Vice-President and second President | |
| C. V. Raman | Physicists, mathematicians, and scientists | |
| Bharat Ratna 1955 | Bhagwan Das | Activist, philosopher, and educationist |
| M. Visvesvaraya | Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Activist and author served as the Prime Minister of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Activist and first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| Bharat Ratna 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Social reformer and educator |
| Bharat Ratna 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | Physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | Activist and speaker of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly | |
| Bharat Ratna 1962 | Rajendra Prasad | Activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar |
| Bharat Ratna 1963 | Zakir Husain | Activist, economist, and education philosopher served as a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and the Governor of Bihar |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, known for his five-volume literary work | |
| Bharat Ratna 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Activist and served as the second Prime Minister of India |
| Bharat Ratna 1971 | Indira Gandhi | First women Prime Minister of India |
| Bharat Ratna 1975 | V. V. Giri | Trade Unionist |
| Bharat Ratna 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Independence activist and statesman, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Bharat Ratna 1980 | Mother Teresa | Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Activist, social reformer, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Bharat Ratna 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | First noncitizen, independence activist |
| Bharat Ratna 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran | Actor turned politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Bharat Ratna 1990 | B.R. Ambedkar | Social reformer and leader of the Dalits |
| Nelson Mandela | Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, President of South Africa | |
| Bharat Ratna 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Gandhi was the ninth Prime Minister of India serving from 1984 to 1989. |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India | |
| Morarji Desai | Activist, and Prime Minister of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad | Activist and first Minister of education |
| J. R. D. Tata | Industrialist, philanthropist, and aviation pioneer | |
| Satyajit Ray | Director, filmmaker, writer, novelist | |
| Bharat Ratna 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Activist, and interim Prime Minister of India. |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | Activist | |
| A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Aerospace and defense scientist | |
| Bharat Ratna 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Carnatic classical vocalist |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | Activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Activist, and social reformer |
| Amartya Sen | Economist | |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | Activist | |
| Ravi Shankar | Musician, sitar player | |
| Bharat Ratna 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | Singer |
| Bismillah Khan | Hindustani classical shehnai player | |
| Bharat Ratna 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi | Hindustani classical vocalist |
| Bharat Ratna 2014 | C. N. R. Rao | Chemist and professor, author |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Cricketer | |
| Bharat Ratna 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Scholar and educational reformer. |
| Atal Bihari Bajpayee | Elected nine times to the Lok Sabha, twice to the Rajya Sabha, and served as the Prime Minister of India for three terms. | |
| Bharat Ratna 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee | Indian politician, and senior leader in the Indian National Congress. |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | A social activist from India, education, health, and rural self-reliance. | |
| Bhupen Hazarika | Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet, and filmmaker from Assam. |
List of Vice Presidents of India |
|
| Vice President of India | Tenure |
|---|---|
| Jagdeep Dhankhar | 11 August 2022 – अवलंबी |
| Venkaiah Naidu | 11 August 2017 – 11 August 2022 |
| Mohammad Hamid Ansari | 11 August 2007 – 11 August 2012 11 August 2012 – 11 August 2017 |
| Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | 19 August 2002 – 21 July 2007 |
| Krishan Kant | 21 August 1997 – 27 July 2002 |
| K. R. Narayanan | 21 August 1992 – 24 July 1997 |
| Shankar Dayal Sharma | 3 September 1987 – 24 July 1992 |
| R. Venkataraman | 31 August 1984 – 24 July 1987 |
| Mohammad Hidayatullah | 31 August 1979 – 30 August 1984 |
| B. D. Jatti | 31 August 1974 – 30 August 1979 |
| Gopal Swarup Pathak | 31 August 1969 – 30 August 1974 |
| V. V. Giri | 13 May 1967 – 3 May 1969 |
| Zakir Hussain | 13 May 1962 – 12 May 1967 |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 13 May 1952 – 12 May 1957 13 May 1957 – 12 May 1962 |
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