📜 Official Text

Every President and every person acting as President or discharging the functions of the President shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe in the presence of the Chief Justice of India (or, in his absence, the senior-most available Supreme Court Judge) an oath or affirmation to faithfully execute the office of President, and to the best of their ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law, and devote themselves to the service and wellbeing of the people of India.