President of India

The supreme command of the defense forces of the Union is vested in the President but the exercise of the supreme command is to be regulated by law. The executive power of the Union is vested in the President. Yet he is intended to stand in relation to the Union administration substantially in the same position as does the king under the English Constitution. He is nominal or constitutional head of the Government. His position is not like that the President of the United States of America who is the real executive head and exercise the powers vested in him under the constitution on his own initiative and responsibility. In the context of the legislative executive relations established by the provisions of the Constitution, the presidential form of government as prevailing is America is ruled out and it is parliamentary type of government that is provided by the constitution of India.
In estimating the constitutional position of the President of India the relevant provisions are Article 53, 74, and 75. Art. 53 vests the executive power of the Union in the President, but lie is required to exercise his powers in accordance with the constitution. Article 74 provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers to aid and advise the President in the exercise of his functions. Art 75(iii) Jays down that the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People. There is no provision in the constitution which makes the President answerable to the legislature.
There was no doubt in the minds of the framers of the Constitution that they were setting up a parliamentary form of Government after the model of Great Britain. Dr. Ambedkar categorically stated in the Constituent Assembly "the President is merely a nominal figure head" that "he has no discrimination and no powers of administration at all" and that the President of India occupies the same position as the King of England. He was the head of the State but not of the executive. He