Which of the following statements is correct?

Statement A- An amendment bill, like all other bills, goes to the President for his assent.

Statement B- Both, nominated and elected representatives of the people are empowered to consider and take final decisions on the question of amendments.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Only Statement 'A' is correct.

The correct answer is Option 1 - Only Statement 'A' is correct.

Statement A- An amendment bill, like all other bills, goes to the President for his assent. (Correct)

Statement B- 'Both, nominated and elected representatives' of the people are empowered to consider and take final decisions on the question of amendments. (INCORRECT)

CORRECTION in Statement B- Only ELECTED representatives of the people are empowered to consider and take final decisions on the question of amendments.

For amending the remaining parts (rigid) of the Constitution, provision has been made in Article 368 of the Constitution. In this article, there are two methods of amending the Constitution and they apply to two different sets of articles of the Constitution. One method is that amendment can be made by special majority of the two houses of the Parliament. The other method is more difficult: it requires special majority of the Parliament and consent of half of the State legislatures. Note that all amendments to the Constitution are initiated only in the Parliament. Besides the special majority in the Parliament no outside agency— —like a constitution commission or a separate body—is required for amending the Constitution.

An amendment bill, like all other bills, goes to the President for his assent, but in this case, the President has no powers to send it back for reconsideration. These details show how rigid and complicated the amending process could have been. Our Constitution avoids these complications. This makes the amendment procedure relatively simple. But more importantly, this process underlines an important principle: only elected representatives of the people are empowered to consider and take final decisions on the question of amendments. Thus, sovereignty of elected representatives (parliamentary sovereignty) is the basis of the amendment procedure.