Political setup in India

India is a vast country with a population of over a billion people whih also makes it the larches country (in terms of population) to have a democratic government. This country along with the United States has a federal government which is split into two main categories, the Central Government and the State Government. To govern a country such as this one is no small task and has thus been subdivided into even smaller parts which we shall not get into for this paper.

The Central Government is the broadest administrative power in India and has the president as its head. The president is aided by a vice president who is appointed by him and the president himself is elected separately by a special electoral college to serve a term of 5 years. Once the PM (a person suggested to him by the legislators of the political party with the majority in the parliament) is elected the president then selects subordinate ministers the appoint of which is overseen by the PM. Once the PM is in the office the president, essentially, becomes just a figurehead but the all decisions taken by the Central Government is still taken under his name.

 The legislative branch is appointed by the constitution of India to watch over the operations of the government. In India the legislative branch is made-up of the Council of states (Rajya Sabha) and the House of the People (Lok Sabha). The government enacts laws as and when required but they can not come into affect till they have been passed by the legislative branch.

The State Government in India are smaller forms of the Central Government in the sense that they have their own governments that are elected by the people of the state. This however is not the case for Union territories where an administrator is appointed by the Central Government. The State Government takes all the inputs from all the smallest of form of government like those that exist at the levels of the villages.

What we are seeing here is just a superficial glance at the structure of the government in India. To cover the entire procedure for India one would need much more space and a lot of time apart from a very detailed knowledge of the constitution of the country.