1 President ( Ram Nath Kovind ) 2 Vice-President ( Venkaiah Naidu ) 3 Prime Minister ( Narendra Modi ) 4 Governors of States (within their respective States) 5 Former Presidents ( Pratibha Patil , Pranab Mukherjee ) 5A Deputy Prime Minister – vacant 6 Chief Justice ( Dipak Misra ) Speaker of the Lok Sabha ( Sumitra Mahajan ) 7 Cabinet Ministers of the Union Chief Ministers of States (within their respective States) Deputy Chairman of the NITI Aayog [2] (Rajiv Kumar) Former Prime Ministers ( Atal Bihari Vajpayee , H. D. Deve Gowda , Manmohan Singh ) Leaders of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha ( Ghulam Nabi Azad ) and the Lok Sabha ( vacant ) 7A [3] Holders of the Bharat Ratna ( Amartya Sen , Lata Mangeshkar , C. N. R. Rao , Sachin Tendulkar , Atal Bihari Vajpayee ) [note 1] 8 Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and the High Commissioners of Commonwealth countries accredited to India Chief Ministers of St
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