Summarize the following court judgment. (C) No. 1269 of 1989. 2 (Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India). K.M. Sharma petitioner in person. Soli J. Sorabjee	 Attorney General	 Santosh Hegde	 Additional Solicitor General	 A.K. Sen	 Manbir Singh	 Girish Chandra and Ms. A. Subhashini for the Respondents. The Court delivered the following order: ORDER Two contentions were raised by the petitioner in this writ petition challenging the appointment of Respondent No. 1	 Shri Devi Lal as Deputy Prime Minister of India: (i) that the oath administered to him as Deputy Prime Minister was not the oath in accordance with the prescrip tion of the Constitution; and (ii) he was still functioning as the Chief Minister of Haryana when the oath of office of his new assignment was administered to him. Pursuant to notice	 two affidavits have been filed one by the Respondent No. 1 and the other on behalf of the Union of India. In the affidavit of Respondent No. 1 certain precedents have been relied upon and the practice which has been followed eversince the Constitution came into force has been referred to. Learned Attorney General appearing on behalf of the Union of India has stated that the form prescribed in the Third Schedule pursuant to the requirement of Article 75(4) of the Constitution is only for a Minister of the Union and there is no separate form even for the Prime Minister. Since the Prime Minister is also a member of the Council of Minis ters	 he takes the same oath as the other ministers are required to take. He maintains that yet in view of the fact that the Constitution describes him as the Prime Minister	 while being sworn into office	 he describes himself as Prime Minister and this practice is in vogue eversince 1950. The oath register is by the incumbent signed as Prime Minister and all other ministers sign as Ministers. He further indi cates that describing Shri Devi Lal as Deputy Prime Minister is descriptive only and for all purposes he is a Minister and there is no 3 constitutional sanction for the post of Deputy Prime Minis ter as such. Relying on a bench decision of this Court in the case of Virji Ram Sutaria vs Nathalal Premji Bhavadia & Ors.	 	 learned Attorney General further contends that the prescribed oath should be divided into two parts	 one which is descriptive and the other which contains the sub stantial part. And according to him	 as long as the substantial part is properly followed	 a mere mistake or error in the descriptive part would not vitiate the oath. This Court in the reported decision said: "In this case	 as we have already noted	 the essential requirement of Article 173 read with Form VII A was that the person taking the oath or making the affirmation would bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution and uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India. The words which precede this portion are merely descriptive of the person and of his nomination as a candidate. " In view of the clear statement. made by the learned Attorney General that Respondent No. 1 is just a Minister like other members of the Council of Ministers though he has been described as Deputy Prime Minister but the description of him as Deputy Prime Minister does not confer on him any powers of the Prime Minister	 along with his other submis sions	 we think the first contention raised by the petition er has no force. So far as the second contention is con cerned	 the petitioner himself does not press it. We accordingly reject the writ petition for the reasons indicated above. No costs. P.S. S Petition dismissed.

The petitioner challenged the appointment of Respondent No. 1 as Deputy Prime Minister of India on the ground that the oath administered to him as such was not the oath in accordance with the prescription of the Constitution. The petition was contested by Respondent No. 1 and the Union of India. It was contended for the latter that de scribing Respondent No. 1 as Deputy Prime Minister was descriptive and for all purposes he was a Minister	 that the form of oath prescribed in the Third Schedule pursuant to the requirement of Article 75(4) of the Constitution is only for a Minister of the Union	 and that there was no separate form even for the Prime Minister. It was further submitted that the prescribed oath is susceptible of division into two parts	 descriptive and substantial	 and as long as the substantial part is properly followed	 as in the instant case	 a mere mistake or error in the descriptive part would not vitiate the oath. Dismissing the writ petition	 HELD: Respondent No. 1 is just a Minister like other Members of the Council of Ministers though he has been described as Deputy Prime Minister. The description of him as Deputy Prime Minister does not confer on him any power of Prime Minister. It cannot	 therefore	 be said that the oath administered to him as Deputy Prime Minister was not the oath in accordance with the prescription of the Constitution. [3E	 2D]