President of India - Indian Polity Video Lecture - CLAT

president of India qualifications
election and removal so let's take an
overview Johar doll heroine said we have
not given him any real part but we have
made his position one of the great
Authority and dignity so the President
of India is a nominal executive head
he's a head of a state but not of the
executive he represents the nation but
does not rule the nation elected head he
is the elected head it is for this
reason that India is known as a republic
as you can see in this figure president
is at the top followed by vice-president
then we have Prime Minister which holds
Council of Ministers
and further ministers have secretaries
additional secretaries and then joint
secretaries qualifications to become or
who can become the president of India a
citizen of India who is of 35 years of
age or above may be a presidential
candidate the presidential candidate
should be qualified to become a member
of Lok Sabha and should not hold any
office of profit under the government
certain office holders
however are permitted to stand as
presidential candidates these are the
current vice president the governor of
any state a minister of the Union or of
any state in the event that the
vice-president a state governor or a
minister is elected president they are
considered to have vacated their
previous office on the date they begin
serving as a president
now who elects the President of India
not every citizen participate in the
election only the following vote the
presidential candidates elected members
of the Parliament elected members of
legislative assemblies of various states
this is called the Electoral College for
the office of the president the members
nominated by the president have no right
to vote in this election
similarly the members of the legislative
councils
of the state legislatures wherever they
exist have also been excluded from the
Electoral College now let's study about
election manner or the principle of
election the manner of election of
president is provided by article 55 of
the indian constitution the following
principles are involved in the election
of the President of India it is an
indirect election the system of
proportional representation by single
transferable vote method is used it is a
secret ballot system uniformity of
representation of different states and
the Union as you can see in the figure
citizen board for local MLA in the state
assembly also they can Allah elect
elected MP in Lok Sabha which indirectly
votes for President of India so
indirectly citizen is also voting
now what is system of proportional
representation the elected candidates
has to take more than 50% votes if
suppose the total votes are one lakh the
elected candidate has to garner at least
fifty thousand one Rhodes similarly what
is single transferable vote system if
any of the candidate fails to get more
than fifty percent votes second round of
counting takes place the process
continues till one candidate gets
majority that is more than fifty percent
of votes
so now what are the election stages
notification of the election of the
president takes place filing of
nomination papers the nomination of the
candidate must be proposed by at least
50 voters and by the same number of
voters scrutiny of nomination papers
takes place then comes polling MPs can
cast their votes in tally and amylase in
their state capitals then counting of
votes and declaration of result happens
both of the President of India oath
taking by the president the oath is
administered by the Chief Justice of
India it reads I so and so do swear in
the name of God that I will faithfully
execute the Office of the President or
discharge the function of the President
of India and will to the best of my
ability preserve protect and defend the
law that I will devote myself to the
service and Val being of the people so
this is how the oath of the president
takes place now criticism of this method
it is not proportional representation
system because such a system is adopted
for multi-member constituencies to mark
second preference is not compulsory no
possibility of election of non political
personality and obviously it is a
complex system
other things that president has a
special powers the president can declare
state national and financial emergencies
a job jargon and Jammu and Kashmir have
been under presidential rule opening
address by the president the president
delivers the opening address for the
first session of the Parliament as well
as a first session of a newly elected
government defining the policies of the
government the president is the
commander in chief of the Indian Armed
Forces the president appoints our state
governors Supreme Court and High Court
judges the Chief Justice
the president can summon and dissolve
Parliament sessions and bill passed in
the Parliament can become law only after
the president's approval commute jail
sentence the President of India has the
power to reduce Jail the degree of
punishment or pardoned criminals even
death sentences can be absorbed on
appeal the president is provided with
the rashtrapati bhavan which has 340
rooms spreads over 20,000 square feet
and was built with 700 million bricks
now comes removal or impeachment process
of president a president can be removed
for violation of the Constitution the
process may start in either of the two
houses of the Parliament either of the
two houses can initiate the process the
charges leveled against the president
had to be signed by at least one fourth
of the total members of the house the
notice is sent up to the president and
14 days later it is taken up for
consideration a resolution to impeach
the president has to be passed by a 2/3
majority of the total members of the
originating house it is then sent to the
other house
the other house investigates the charges
that have been made during this process
the president has the right to defend
himself herself through an authorized
counsel it is the second house also
approves the charges made by 2/3
majority again the president stands
impeached and is deemed to have the
cated his or her office from the date
when such a resolution stand passed
other than the impeachment no other
penalty can be given to the President of
India for the violation of the
Constitution so that was bit about
President of India thank you