Which Article of the Constitution of India expressly provides that the President is eligible for re-election?

Correct - C. Article 57 is headed Eligibility for re-election and says that a person who holds, or who has held, office as President is eligible for re-election to that office.

No other article in the presidential group mentions a second term, so option (c) is the only one that answers the stem. The Constitution puts no cap on how many times a President may be re-elected.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Article 59 — Article 59 lays down the conditions of the President's office - no seat in Parliament or a state legislature, no other office of profit, free official residence and emoluments that cannot be reduced during the term.
• (b)
  Article 56 — Article 56 fixes the term: five years from the date the President enters office, with resignation addressed to the Vice-President. A term is not the same thing as eligibility to stand again.
• (d)
  Article 58 — Article 58 lists the qualifications for election - Indian citizen, at least 35 years old, qualified for election to the Lok Sabha and holding no office of profit. It governs the first election, not re-election.

Articles 52 to 62 form the Constitution's block on the President, and SSC picks single articles out of it.

The running order is worth holding as a sequence: 52 (there shall be a President), 53 (executive power), 54-55 (electoral college and manner of election), 56 (term), 57 (re-election), 58 (qualifications), 59 (conditions of office), 60 (oath), 61 (impeachment), 62 (time of holding the election).

Read that way, 57 sits exactly where it should - immediately after the article that ends a term comes the article that permits another one.

Key facts

• Article 57 makes a sitting or former President eligible for re-election, with no limit on the number of terms.
• Article 56 sets the President's term at five years from the date of entering office.
• Article 58 requires an Indian citizen of at least 35 years who is qualified for election to the House of the People.
• Dr Rajendra Prasad is the only President of India to have been elected to the office twice.

Common traps

• Choosing Article 56 because a five-year term feels like the re-election clause.
• Assuming India caps a President at two terms, as the United States does by its 22nd Amendment.

No directly related past PYQ was found.