Source: https://discuss.forumias.com/discussion/22698/need-clarification-presidents-powers-are-vested-with-home-ministry
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 22:42:45+00:00

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I need a clarification on this topic. Members please help.
On today's newspaper, (Hindu) under the headline 'Ordinance to clear path for holding Jallikattu in TN', it stated that 'It (Bill) doesn't have to go to the President of India for his assent since his powers are vested with the Home Ministry'.
Now this "instruction" power of President must be an executive power and not a legislative one like his own ordinance making power and with article 74(1) he shall execute it on the advice of council of ministers , moreover the judgement in T Venkata Reddy vs. State of Andhra Pradesh may also be referred ! at last "nothing is in the discretion of President , yet everything is !
I may be wrong , just my thoughts !
@Jaime_Lannister , Sorry to bug you, but could you please make it a bit more clear?
Art 254 (1) - if there is a clash between a central and state law the central law will prevail.
Art 254 (2) - the state law will prevail if it is the more recent one and also has the Presidential assent.
Art 213(1) - Gives powers to the Governor of the state to promulgate ordinances.
Proviso to Art 213(1) section (c) - Governor of the state cannot promulgate ordinance if a similar law would have violated POINT 1 above had such a law been passed by state legislature. To promulgate such an ordinance the Governor needs "instruction" of the President as per the main clause of the proviso.
So to promulgate ordinance if it violated POINT 1 Presidential instruction is needed. So instruction of the President is required and not the assent. POINT 2.
Proviso to Art 213(3) - if an ordinance is promulgated by the Governor of the state by following POINT 2 it shall be "deemed", that is, it will be assumed that a bill was reserved for the President and the President has assented to it. So no actual Presidential assent is required because it is "deemed" that he/she has done so.
Hence the ordinance will not go to the President (anyway only bills go to President for assent and not ordinances).
This "deeming" process is done by the Home Ministry. This is not given in the Constitution the same way that it is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution that MHA 'advises' President regarding pardon, reprieve etc (Art 72). This is mentioned in the Rules of Conduct of Government Business formed under Art 77(3).

References: Art 254

Art 254

Art 213
 Art 213
 Art 213
 Art 77