(Repealed) Partial Operation of the Constitution's Provisions During the Transitional Period
[This Article was part of Chapter II of Part XXI as originally enacted — the 'Provisional Parliament' provisions governing India's transitional government between the Constitution's commencement on 26 January 1950 and the formation of India's first fully elected Parliament following the 1951–52 general elections (during which the former Constituent Assembly itself sat as a Provisional Parliament). Once that transition was complete, this Article became spent and was formally omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956.]
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These provisions are now purely of historical and archival interest, documenting exactly how India was governed during its first, brief transitional period as a Republic before full parliamentary democracy took its permanent constitutional shape.
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