Constitutional Validity of Election of President in India: A Critical Study of Nominal Absolutism in the Era of Separation of Power

Arindam Shit

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.11327

Constitutional Validity of Election of President in India: A Critical Study of Nominal Absolutism in the Era of Separation of Power

Author(s)	Arindam Shit
Country	India
Abstract	The Preamble of the Constitution of India clearly states that India is a republic. As a republic, there is no hereditary king; instead, the President is the head of state. According to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, our President is only a nominal figurehead with no discretion or administrative authority. Only with the assistance and advice of the Council of Ministers does the President execute these functions. The President is the head of Union Executives. Article 53(1) vests in him full executive power of the union. The said powers have been exercised directly by the President or by officers subordinate to him. Presidents such as Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan publicly disagreed with the administration on certain policy matters and had enormous power over the government. Hence, a President can intervene on behalf of the citizens against the executive's tyranny and encourage it to change its ways. But the process of election of President as per the provision of the Constitution provides enormous power to the ruling government for electing the President, as a result, any government policy, laws, etc. became easy to pass. This piece of research has been developed to study the position of the President in India concerning the power assigned to him. Moreover, this paper has been extended to study the separation of power and the doctrine of check and balances in the presence of the President. Monarchy although not allowed in Indian politics but the positional supremacy, a President gets must be more impactful and transparent, and this is a target of this paper to examine the same.
Keywords	President, Election, figurehead, position, authority, impact
Field	Sociology > Politics
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 6, November-December 2023
Published On	2023-12-30
Cite This	Constitutional Validity of Election of President in India: A Critical Study of Nominal Absolutism in the Era of Separation of Power - Arindam Shit - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 6, November-December 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.11327
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.11327
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gtbtf3

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