P RIME M INISTER AND C OUNCIL OF M INISTERS Check your progress Imagine that the Prime Minister wants to impose ‘President’s rule’ in one State because the State government has failed to effectively curb atrocities against the Dalits in that State. The President has a different position. He is saying that the provision regarding President’s rule should be used only sparingly. In this situation which of the following courses are open to the President?
a. Tell the Prime Minister that he will not sign on the order promulgating President’s rule. b. Dismiss the Prime Minister.
c. Ask the Prime Minister to send CRPF to that State. d. Make a press statement about how the Prime Minister is wrong.
e. Discuss the matter with the Prime Minister and try to dissuade him from taking this action, but if he insists, agreeing to sign the said order.