FOUNDERS
All India Panchayat parishad was founded by Late Shri Balwant Rai Mehta, Late Shri Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain & Late Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda with many others at Girideh in 1958. Late Shri Balwant Rai Mehta was the 1st President.

GREAT LUMINERIES

Late Shri Balwant Rai Mehta (Bharat Ratna)	President 1961-1963
Late Shri Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narian (Bharat Ratna)	President 1963-1967
Late Shri Surinder Kumar Dey	President 1967-72
Late Shri Lal Singh Tyagi	President 1972-91
Shri Sehdev Choudhary	President 1991-97
Late Shri Jagdish Narayan Mandal	President 1997-2002
Late Shri Hari Prasad (Freedom Fighter)	Acting President 1999-2002
Sh. Lambodar Pathak	President 2002-Till date

PATRONAGE OF LUMINARIES

1. Late Shri Pt Jawhar Lal Nehru	First Prime Minister Of India
2. Late Shri Lal Bhadur Shastri	Former Prime Minister Of India
3. Late Shri V.V Giri	Former President Of India
4. Late Shri N.Nijalingappa	Former Minister, Govt. of India
5. Late Shri Morarji Desai	Former Prime Minister Of India
6. Late Shrimati Indira Gandhi	Former Prime Minister Of India
7. Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi	Former Prime Minister Of India
8. Late Shri Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Former Chief Minister of Rajasthan
9. Late Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma	Former President Of India
10. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpaye	Former Prime Minister Of India
11. Late Shri Ram Krishan Hegde	Former Minister, Govt. of India
12. Sh. Shashi Bhushan	Staunch Gandhian and Leading Freedom Fighter of the Country
13. Late Shri Vinoba Bhave	Renowned Social Reformer and a Devout Gandhian

29 STATES PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS WORKING WITH AIPP

1. Andhra Pradesh State Chamber Panchayat Parishad	Hyderabad
2. Andaman Nicobar Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Port Blair
3. Assam Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Guwahati
4. Dadar Nagar Haweli Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Silwassa
5. Gujarat Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Gandhinagar
6. Bihar Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Patna
7. Daman and Dive Panchayat Parishad	Daman
8. All Goa Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Panaji
9. Himachal Pradesh Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Shimla
10. Karnataka Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Bangalore
11. Jammu-Kashmir Panchayat Federation	Jammu
12. All Kerala Gram Panchayat Association	Thiruananthpuram
13. Madhya Pradesh Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Bhopal
14. Maharashtra Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Mumbai
15. All Manipur Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Imphal
16. All Orissa Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Bhuwaneshvar
17. Rajasthan Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Jaipur
18. Sikkim Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Gangtok
19. Uttar Pradesh Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Lucknow
20. West Bengal Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Kolkata
21. Chandigarh Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Chandigarh
22. Haryana Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Chandigarh
23. Meghalya Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Shillong
24. Tamilnadu Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Chennai
25. Arunachal Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Itanagar
26. Tripura Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Agartalla
27. Jharkhand Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Ranchi
28. Uttaranchal Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Dehradun
29. Chhattisgarh Rajya Panchayat Parishad	Raipur