President and the Indian constitution

By:

Choudhary,Valmiki

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Allied; 1985Description: 379pSubject(s):

Constitutional law-India

DDC classification:

342.062 CHO

Summary: There are three features of the Indian Constitution: (a) It is a detailed written constitution. (b) It provides a complete administrative set up for the Union as well as the States. (c) It depicts a Union of States. The President The Constitution lays down that the President shall have a Council of Ministers to aid and advise him. The position of the President is more or less the same as that of the King of England in constitutional matters, but the position of the Indian President is different from that of the King of England, in that he is an elected person who has to justify his election whereas a hereditary king is there by right of birth. Whatever the strictly correct legal and constitutional position may be, there is no doubt that in the case of an elected President people do look upon him also as a person having some authority in the governance of the country and he can justify his position only by tendering such advice and giving such suggestions as he considers necessary to the Cabinet before it takes any decision. Once a decision has been taken, whether with or without his suggestion or even against his suggestions, he has to act according to that decision. If he does not get therefore an opportunity of influencing the decision beforehand for any reason, the President becomes only an ornamental figurehead without the authority of a hereditary king and a costly non-entity.

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There are three features of the Indian

Constitution: (a) It is a detailed written constitution.

(b) It provides a complete administrative set up for the Union as well as the States. (c) It depicts a Union of States.

The President

The Constitution lays down that the President shall have a Council of Ministers to aid and advise him.

The position of the President is more or less the same as that of the King of England in constitutional matters, but the position of the Indian President is different from that of the King of England, in that he is an elected person who has to justify his election whereas a hereditary king is there by right of birth. Whatever the strictly correct legal and constitutional position may be, there is no doubt that in the case of an elected President people do look upon him also as a person having some authority in the governance of the country and he can justify his position only by tendering such advice and giving such suggestions as he considers necessary to the Cabinet before it takes any decision. Once a decision has been taken, whether with or without his suggestion or even against his suggestions, he has to act according to that decision. If he does not get therefore an opportunity of influencing the decision beforehand for any reason, the President becomes only an ornamental figurehead without the authority of a hereditary king and a costly non-entity.

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