President of India

Qualifications for Election

• Citizen of India
• Completed 35 years of Age
• Should be qualified for election as a member of Lok Sabha
• Should not hold any office of Profit
 Election of the President
• Electoral College consisting of
• Elected members of both Houses of Parliament
• Elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies
• Uniformity in the Scale of Representation of Different States
• Parity between the States as a whole and the Union
• The voter may indicate preference
• Next step is calculation of Quota (minimum no. of votes necessary for the
candidate to get elected
• Total No. of Valid Votes +1
No. of Members to be elected (i.e. 1) +1
 Powers and Functions: Executive
All decisions taken in his name
Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces
Appointing Powers
Administration of Union Territories
Aided and Advised by the PM and the CoM
 Legislative
• Summons and prorogues the two houses
• Addresses joint session of the Parliament
• Send messages to either houses of Parliament
• Nominate 2 members
• Disqualification of a member
• Approval of the President once bill has been passed
• Summons a joint sitting
• Promulgate Ordinance
• 366 (2)"an Anglo-Indian" means a person whose father or any of whose other male
progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within
the territory of India and is or was born within such territory of parents habitually
resident therein and not established there for temporary purposes only;
• 86. Right of President to address and send messages to Houses.
• (1) The President may address either House of Parliament or both Houses assembled together, and
for that purpose require the attendance of members.
• (2) The President may send messages to either House of Parliament, whether with respect to a Bill
then pending in Parliament or otherwise, and a House to which any message is so sent shall with all
convenient despatch consider any matter required by the message to be taken into consideration.
 Article 74
• (1) There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the
head to aid and advise the President who shall, in the exercise of his
functions, act in accordance with such advice:
• Provided that the President may require the Council of Ministers to
reconsider such advice, either generally or otherwise, and the President
shall act in accordance with the advice tendered after such reconsideration.
• (2) The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by
Ministers to the President shall not be inquired into in any court
 Financial Powers
• Presents the Budget
• Supplementary Budget
• Contingency fund of India Article 267(1)
 Judicial Powers
• President has the power to grant pardons. He may
• Suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any
offence. This is applicable in
All cases where the punishment or sentence is by court martial
In all cases where the offence is under a law under Central jurisdiction
In all cases of sentence of death
 Emergency Powers
• National
• State
• Financial
 Position of the President
• Nominal Head
• Not a Nominal Head