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How is the President of India: elected? Outline the salient· characteristics of the electoral college of the Indian President.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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The Constituent Assembly wanted a head of state who reigns but does not rule. Direct election would have created a popular mandate rivalling the Prime Minister's, so Articles 54 and 55 provide an indirect election by the elected representatives of the Union and the states — a democratic and federal base without an independent mandate.

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