Election of President
included in editionWhat does this mean?
The President is elected by an electoral college of elected members of both Houses of Parliament and elected members of the covered Legislative Assemblies. Citizens do not directly cast a separate nationwide presidential vote.
The Union's President, ministers, Parliament, Supreme Court and Comptroller and Auditor-General.
The ballot a citizen casts for an MLA is different from the later vote that elected MLA casts in the presidential electoral college.
Why is this provision here?
It gives the presidency a representative electoral foundation through elected national and covered State-level legislators.
This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason. The later amendment records linked below document changes affecting this Article; their Bill statements explain those proposals, not necessarily every original clause or the complete present legal outcome.
The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.
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Source-page notes · may concern neighbouring Articles
1. Ins. by the Constitution (Seventieth Amendment) Act, 1992, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-6-1995).
* Now Puducherry vide the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006 (44 of 2006), s. 3 (w.e.f. 1-10-2006).
Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.