List of Chief Guest On Republic Day Parades 1950 to 2021

YEAR	CHIEF GUEST	COUNTRY
1950	President Sukarno	Indonesia
1951	King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah	Nepal
1952	No Invitation
1953	No Invitation
1954	King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck	Bhutan
1955	Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad	Pakistan
1956	Chief Justice Kotaro Tanaka	Japan
	Chancellor of the Exchequer R A Butler	United Kingdom
1957	Ministry of Defence Georgy Zhukov	Soviet Union
1958	Marshall Ye Jianying	China
1959	Duke of Edinbhurg Prince Philip	United Kingdom
1960	President Kliment Voroshilov	USSR
1961	Queen Elizabeth II	United Kingdom
1962	Prime Minister Viggo Kampmann	Denmark
1963	King Norodom Sihanouk	Cambodia
1964	Chief of Defence Staff Lord Louis Mountbatten	United Kingdom
1965	Food and Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid	Pakistan
1966	No Invitation
1967	King Mohammed Zahi Shah	Afganistan
1968	Prime Minister Alexei Kosigin	USSR
	President Josip Broz Tito	SFR Ugosolavia
1969	Prime Minister of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov	Bulgaria
1970	King of Belgians Baudouin	Belgium
1971	President Julius Nyerere	Tanzania
1972	Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	Mauritius
1973	President Mobutu Sese Sako	Zaire
1974	President Josip Broz Tito	SFR Ugosolavia
	Prime Minister Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike	Shri Lanka
1975	President Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia
1976	Prime Minister Jacques Chirac	France
1977	First SecretaryEdward Gierek	Poland
1978	President Patrick Hillery	Ireland
1979	Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser	Australia
1980	President Valery Giscard d'Estaing	France
1981	President Jose Lopez Portillo	Maxico
1982	King Juan Carlos I	Spain
1983	President Shehu Shagari	Nigeria
1984	King Jigme Singye Wangchuck	Bhutan
1985	President Raul Alfonsin	Argentina
1986	Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou	Greece
1987	President Alan Garcia	Peru
1988	President Junius Jayewardene	Shri Lanka
1989	General Secretary Nguye Van Linh	Vietnam
1990	Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth	Mauritius
1991	President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Maldives
1992	President Mario Soares	Portugal
1993	Prime Minister John Major	United Kingdom
1994	Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong	Singapore
1995	Prsident Nelson Mendela	South Africa
1996	President Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Brazil
1997	Prime Minister Basdeo Panday	Tridad and Tobago
1998	President Jacques Chirac	France
1999	King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev	Nepal
2000	President Olusegun Obasanjo	Nigeria
2001	President Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Algeria
2002	President Cassam Uteem	Mauritius
2003	President Mohammed Khatami	Iran
2004	President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	Brazil
2005	King Jigme Singye Wangchuck	Bhutan
2006	King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud	Saudi Arabia
2007	President Vladimir Putin	Russia
2008	President Nicolas Sarkozy	France
2009	President Nurusultan Nazarbayev	Kazakhstan
2010	President Lee Myung Bak	Republic of Korea
2011	President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia
2012	Prime Miister Yingluck Shinawatra	Thailand
2013	King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	Bhutan
2014	Prime Minister Shinzo Abe	Japan
2015	President Barack Obama	United States
2016	President Francois Hollande	France
2017	Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed	United Arab Emirates
	Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah	Brunei
	Joko Widodo	Indonesia
	Thongloun Sisoulith	Laos
	Prime Minister Hun Sen	Cambodia
	Najib Razak	Malayisa
2018	President Htin Kyaw	Myanmar
	Rodrigo Roa Duterte	Philippines
	Halimah Yacob	Singapore
	Prayuth Chan-ocha	Thailand
	Nguyen Xaun Phuc	Vietnam
2019	President Cyril Ramaphosa	South Africa
2020	President Jair bolsonaro	Brazil
2021	No Chief guest due to COVID-19 pandemic

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