2.4.3. Issues related to the Election

According to Article 71, all doubts and disputes in connection with the election of the President are inquired into and decided by the Supreme Court of India, whose jurisdiction shall be exclusive and final (other Courts have no jurisdiction over the same). An election petition calling in question an election to the office of the President may be presented within 30 days from the date of publication of the declaration of the result of election to the Supreme Court. This can be presented by any candidate at such election or any twenty or more electors joined together as petitioners. Petitions can be filled only on two grounds:

♤ Nomination of the candidate is wrongly rejected

♤ Elected candidate is wrongly accepted

No election can be questioned on the ground that there was a vacancy in the Electoral College.

In case, the election is declared void by the Supreme Court, acts done by the President prior to the date of such decision of the Supreme Court shall not be invalidated.