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Option 4 : Neither 1 nor 2
The correct answer is Neither 1 nor 2.
- The executive power of the Union is vested in the President. Hence statement 1 is not correct.
- Article 53(1) of the constitution vests the executive power of the union in the President.
- It provides that the power may be exercised by the President either directly or through officers' subordinates to him.
- For this purpose, ministers are deemed to be officers subordinate to him.
- The Council of Ministers exercises the real executive power in the name of the President.
- All executive decisions are taken in the name of the President (Article 77).
- The Cabinet Secretary is the ex-officio chairman of the Civil Services Board, the Cabinet Secretariat, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), and the head of all civil services under the rules of business of the Government of India. Hence statement 2 is not correct.
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