Any minister holding

Having a majority of seats in the lower house of parliament.[237] The executive of the Indian government consists of the president, the vice president, and the Union Council of Ministers—with the cabinet being its executive committee—headed by the prime minister.

Any minister holding a portfolio must be a member of one of the houses of parliament.[234] In the Indian parliamentary system, the executive is subordinate to the legislature; the prime minister and their council are directly responsible to the lower house of the parliament. Civil servants act as permanent executives and all decisions of the executive are implemented by them.[239]

Legislature: The legislature of India is the bicameral parliament. Operating under a Westminster-style parliamentary system, it comprises an upper house called the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and a lower house called the Lok Sabha (House of the People).[240] The Rajya Sabha is a permanent body of 245 members who serve staggered six-year terms.[241] Most are elected indirectly by

the state and union territorial legislatures in numbers proportional to their state’s share of the national population.[238] All but two of the Lok Sabha’s 545 members are elected directly by popular vote; they represent single-member constituencies for five-year terms.[242] Two seats of parliament, reserved for Anglo-Indian in the article 331, have been scrapped.[243][244]