00:00 The President has not signed the bills.
00:05 The interpretation of Article 75 is two stages.
00:09 Which stage is relevant to you?
00:12 Article 75 is on two stages.
00:17 The first stage is when a bill is passed from the National Assembly to the President.
00:27 The President has two options.
00:31 One option is to sign the bill.
00:35 In legal terms, sign means to sign.
00:39 If he signs and accepts that the bill is legal, then it becomes legal.
00:47 The second option is that he does not accept it.
00:50 If he does not accept it, then it will not become legal.
00:53 There is no such provision in Article 75 that if he does not accept it within 10 days, then it will become legal.
01:04 There is no such provision in Article 75.
01:07 So if he does not sign, then it will not become legal.
01:10 Now what should he do?
01:12 The Constitutional Court of India has issued a statement that the President should return the bill to the State Council.
01:24 The President may have said that he did not do it.
01:29 I do not know why he did not do it.
01:33 But the President did not send the second portion back officially.
01:39 But not sending it back officially does not mean that the bill becomes legal at stage 1.
01:45 Because the law is only made when it is signed.
01:49 Now what is stage 2 according to Article 75?
01:52 If he does not sign, then what should the Parliament do?
01:56 This is also stated in the Statement at stage 2.
01:59 If he does not sign, then it will be understood that he has returned.
02:04 And the Joint Parliament will sit and think about it.
02:10 And if the Joint Parliament thinks that this bill is correct, then the Joint Parliament will send the President back.
02:17 And if the President does not decide on that bill in 10 days at stage 2, does not sign it,
02:25 then the Constitutional Court of India says that in that case, this bill will become legal.
02:31 Even if he does not sign it.
02:34 So now at this stage, the President has said that this is stage 1.
02:38 The Joint Parliament has not yet gone into the matter.
02:41 It was stage 1, the President did not sign it.
02:44 If he does not sign it, then the Government said that without signing it, we will understand that this law has been made.
02:52 So in my opinion, this is the position of the Government and what they have notified is not correct at all.
02:59 This is a piece of paper.
03:01 According to me, this law has not yet been made in the Constitution.
03:05 And that is why there can be no action on it.
03:08 This is the position.
03:10 There is no confusion in this.
03:12 There is no crisis in this.
03:14 It is just the mistake of the President that he did not send it with comments.
03:18 But that does not mean that this law has been made.
03:21 So this is what you are saying is a mistake. Can the entire bill be sent back without comments or reservations?
03:29 This is what you are saying is a mistake. Is it a lapse?
03:32 Yes, see this is not necessary.
03:35 It should be done.
03:37 There is a requirement in the Constitution.
03:39 So it should be done.
03:41 Someone should return it under comments.
03:43 But the Constitution does not say that if you do not comment, it will be understood that the law has been made.
03:52 The Constitution talks about return only.
03:54 Whether the return is with comments or not.
03:57 If you do not agree with it, then there is only one way and that is that the Joint Parliament should send it back.
04:03 Because this cannot be done.
04:05 It cannot be assumed that a President does not comment, does not send it back and keeps it in his drawer.
04:12 This is not possible.
04:14 That is why the Constitution says that either he will send it back, if he does not sign it, then it will be understood as a return.
04:20 And therefore, even without comments, it should be understood as a return.
04:23 The Joint Parliament can then send it back.
04:26 This is a scheme of things so that a bill does not stop.
04:32 It should have a process and finally that law can be made.
04:35 This is an interesting point, Senator.
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