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Understanding India's Presidential Election Process

The document discusses the election process of the President of India, highlighting that the President is elected indirectly by an electoral college rather than by popular vote. It notes the unique method of proportional representation used in the election and the President's powers, which have faced criticism for being extensive compared to the U.S. President. The document also mentions the impeachment process and concerns regarding the potential for the President to wield excessive power under the new constitution.

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Understanding India's Presidential Election Process

The document discusses the election process of the President of India, highlighting that the President is elected indirectly by an electoral college rather than by popular vote. It notes the unique method of proportional representation used in the election and the President's powers, which have faced criticism for being extensive compared to the U.S. President. The document also mentions the impeachment process and concerns regarding the potential for the President to wield excessive power under the new constitution.

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604 AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS

the USA, be elected indirectly by an electoral College,


wili
formed, not in the same way as in the by secondaryUSA
voters, but by the elected membeis of both Houses
of Indian
Parliament and of the Legislative Assemblies of states
The '

President of the Fourth Republic (France) and also the Presi-


dent of the Union of Burma are elected by the two Houses
convened together A
considerable section of Indian opinion
was in favour of a popularly elected President for India But
as the President will be, unlike the U.S President, the A
constitutional head of the state, and guided by the advice
of a Council of Ministers, lesponsible to Parliament, the
necessity of diiect election by the people does not arise The
method adopted m India for presidential election is rather
unusual inasmuch as the system of proportional representa- V
tion by single tiansferable vote is adopted in the case of
multi-membei constituency But here it has been adopted
only to enable the minority communities to have a say in
the matter of Presidential election The President of India
be elected for a term of five years and may be re-elected.
will
The President may be removed fiom office by impeachment
as IS the practice m the USA,
but here in India, either
House of Parliament will have the power provided the othei
House prefers the chaige but in the USA, it is the Senate
Avhich enjoys the exclusive right to impeach the Piesident

The New Constitution of India has been subjected to


scathing ciiticism especially on the ground of the
formidable
list of ,powcis that the Piesident
will exercise under the"^
Ncu Constitution The constitution has conferred wide
poweis, executive, financial and emergency, upon
^legislative,
the Piesident Besides, the very fact that the Indian Presi-
dent, unlike his USA
piototype, will be the head of a
fcdcial government with a strong centre
has aroused mis-
gu'ings in many of the New
quarters. Critics Constitution
openly declaic that the President will be the
Caesar of the
Republic, stndmg the government like a Colossus
Tiue it
w that ihc constitution has vested m the President such
pouers uhich mil enable him to suspend civil liberty
of the"
...Ui ,0 and peace Such a formidable list of

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