PRESIDENT OF INDIA

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WHO IS PRESIDENT OF INDIA?

HEAD OF THE STATE

FIRST CITIZEN OF INDIA

SYMBOL OF SOLIDARITY, UNITY, INTEGRITY

UNION EXECUTIVE
He is a part of Union Executive along with the Vice-President,
Prime Minister, Council of Ministers, and Attorney-General of India.
 ELECTION,QUALIFICATION & TERM OF OFFICE

INDIAN CITIZEN
35 years
Should qualify the conditions to be
elected as a member of the Lok Sabha.
Should not hold any office of profit

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION WITH MEANS

OF A SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE IS THE
PRINCIPLE OF PRESIDENT'S ELECTION

ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Legislative Assemblies of the states
Legislative Assemblies of Delhi and
Puducherry
Nominated Members of LS & RS .
Nominated MLA's
Members of Legislative Councils

ARTICLE 52
He holds office for five years.
He sits in the office even after the completion of
TO five years given no new election has taken place or

ARTICLE 62 no new President has been elected till then.

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He can also be re-elected and there is no cap on
his re-election.
ARTICLE 72 What is the procedure for impeachment of a President?
 POWERS AND FUNCTIONS

Every executive action that the

Indian government takes, is to be
Make rules to simplify the taken in his name
transaction of business of the govt.

Prime Minister acts as the

He seeks administrative communication between
information from the Union CoM and the president
government

INTER-STATE COUNCILS He forms Commissions of;

Scheduled Castes
EXECUTIVE Scheduled Tribes
He can declare any area as a
POWERS Other Backward Classes
scheduled area and
administer it.
He appoints,

CAG - Chief Election Commissioner - Chairman of the UPSC

State Governors - Finance Commission's chairman
 He summons or prorogues Parliament
He summons a joint sitting of Lok and dissolve the Lok Sabha
Sabha and Rajya Sabha in case of
deadlock

He addresses the Indian

He nominates 12 members of Parliament in every first
the Rajya Sabha & 2 members session after the general
in loak sabha election.

Disqualifications of MPs
He recommends/ permits
the introduction of certain
LEGISLATIVE types of bills
He promulgates ordinances
POWERS
under the Article 123
The president can veto the
bills unders the guidelines
Article 111.

He lays the following reports before the Parliament:

Comptroller and Auditor General

Union Public Service Commission

Finance Commission, etc.

 FINANCIAL POWERS JUDICIAL POWERS

Appointment of Chief Justice and

The money bill needs his prior Supreme Court/High Court Judges
recommendation .

He causes Union Budget to

be laid before the Parliament He takes advice from the
Supreme Court, however, the
advice is not binding on him

Contingency Fund of India

He has pardoning power

Under article 72.
He constitutes the Finance
Commission

DIPLOMATIC & MILITARY POWERS

International Treaties and agreements He is the commander of

are negotiated and concluded in his name.
the defence forces of India.
He is the representative of India in He appoints:
international forums and affairs Chief of the Army
Chief of the Navy
Chief of the Air Force

He deals with three types of emergencies given in

the Indian Constitution