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Please give me a essay on our president of india

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The executive power of the Union government lies in the President who exercises it either directly or through officers subordinate to him. He is the supreme commander of the defence forces of the union. Executive actions are formally taken in his name. This power is to be exercised in accor­dance with the Constitution, which lays down positive qualifications and negative disqualifications for the high post.

The positive requirements are that he should be a citizen of India; should have completed the age of 35 years; and should be qualified for election as a member of House of People (Lok Sabha). Negatively, he should not hold any office of profit; and should not be a member of either house of Parliament or of a house of the legislature of any state.

The President is indirectly elected by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of Parliament and the elected members of the legislative assemblies of the states. The members of state assemblies have been included in the Electoral College to prevent the President from being elected merely by the vote of the party in power at the centre.The Constitution lays down a mandatory time limit and the election cannot be postponed beyond the expiration of the President’s tenure. Thus, the election would have to be completed even though there may be some vacancies in Parliament or in some the state assemblies, or even if the assembly of any state stands dissolved.

The procedure ensures uniformity and ‘weightage’ is determined by the weight of population of each state. Thickly populated states like Uttar Pradesh have a larger number of votes than the less populous state like Goa. The principle of federal parity between the states taken together and the union has been achieved by the Mudalier formula of weightage of votes. The election is held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.

It ensure the minorities a better voice President in the selection of the head of the state. If a candidate gets an absolute majority of the votes cast, he would be deemed to have been elected without any recount. But, if no candidate has secured an absolute majority of the votes cast, the subsequent preferences, would have to be taken into account. The voting at the election is by secret ballot and every vote for or against may become a ‘conscience vote’.

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