Executive
Introduction
Form of the State
The Union Executive
v  The President of India
v  The Vice-President of India
v  The Council of Ministers and the Cabinet, Headed By the Prime
Minister
The preamble of the constitution of India, Declares
India a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic. Unlike England where a
hereditary monarch, either a Queen or a king is the head of the State, India
has an elected President as head of the State with a fixed tenure of office.
The President is the supreme head of all the constitutional wings of the State,
i.e the legislature. Executive, Judiciary and Armed Forces. The President
supervises their functions and ensures adherence to constitutional provisions
by theses bodies. The President represents the entire nation and upholds the
constitution in every sphere of State’s activity. But unlike the President of
the USA, where the President of the republic wields de-facto (real, functional)
executive powers, the President of Indian Republic is not vested with direct
executive responsibilities. Such direct and real executive responsibilities are
assigned by the Constitution to a Council of Ministers led by the Prime
Minister, and such Council of Ministers, both collectively and individually
responsible and accountable to the union legislature. Thus, our Republican form
of State is different from American form of Republic, where it is
Presidential executive.
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