Article 191: Disqualifications for membership

The Constitution of IndiaCentral Constitution · 1950

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(1) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council of a State—

(a) if he holds any office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State specified in the First Schedule, other than an office declared by the Legislature of the State by law not to disqualify its holder;

(b) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;

Where this provision sits

Act	The Constitution of India
Article	191
Marginal note	Disqualifications for membership
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	7

Judgments that turned on this provision

EP/32/2019 of KISHOR NANA SHINDE Vs THE STATE ELECTION COMMISSIONER AND 25 ORSBombay High Court · 2022-02-26
PRADEEP KUMAR SONTHALIA vs DHIRAJ PRASAD SAHU @ DHIRAJ SAHUSupreme Court of India · 2020-12-18
ASHRAF KOKKUR vs K.V.ABDUL KHADER ETC.Supreme Court of India · 2014-08-29
U.C.RAMAN vs P.T.A.RAHIM AND ORS.Supreme Court of India · 2014-08-01
AEP/7/2005 of DADAJI DAGDU BHUSE Vs SURESH BHILLA NIGAMBombay High Court · 2007-01-23

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