PART V
THE UNION
CHAPTER I.—THE EXECUTIVE
The President and Vice-President
The President
India.
52. There shall be a President of India.
Executive power
of the Union.
53. (1) The executive power of the Union shall be vested in the President and shall be exercised by him either directly or through officers subordinate to him in accordance with this Constitution.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, the supreme command of the Defence Forces of the Union shall be vested in the President and the exercise thereof shall be regulated by law.
(3) Nothing in this article shall—
- (a) be deemed to transfer to the President any functions conferred by any existing law on the Government of any State or other authority; or
- (b) prevent Parliament from conferring by law functions on authorities other than the President.
Election of
President.
54. The President shall be elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of—
- (a) the elected members of both Houses of Parliament; and
- (b) the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States.
Manner of elec-
tion of President.
[१]55. (1) As far as practicable, there shall be uniformity in the scale of representation of the different States at the election of the President.
(2) For the purpose of securing such uniformity among the States inter se as well as parity between the States as a whole and the Union, the number of votes which cach elected member of Parliament and of the Legislative Assembly of each State is entitled to cast at such election shall be determined in the following manner :—
- (a) every elected member of the Legislative Assembly of a State shall have as many votes as there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient obtained by dividing the population of the State by the total number of the elected members of the Assembly;
- ↑ In their application to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in arta. 54 and 55, references to the elected members of the House of the People and to cach such member shall include references to the representatives of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in that House; and the population of the State shall be deemed to be forty-four lakhs and ten thousand.
