Article 256 of the Constitution of India

Verbatim text

exercised as to ensure compliance with the laws made byParliament and any existing laws which apply in thatState, and the executive power of the Union shall extendto the giving of such directions to a State as may appearto the Government of India to be necessary for thatpurpose.

What this means

The index files this text under article 256 of the Constitution of India.
The index files it under the chapter heading “CHAPTER I.—L EGISLATIVE RELATIONS — Distribution of Legislative Powers”.
The passage runs to about 47 words.

The row’s stored title is a body fragment, not a heading (“The executive power of every State shall be so”), so it is not used as the provision’s title here.

The index gives this passage an article number but stores a body fragment where a heading would be, so the number could not be cross-checked against the text. Check it against the official Constitution before relying on it in a citation.

No rights vocabulary from our fixed word list appears in this passage, so no plain-language reading is offered for it.

This is a mechanical reading aid generated from the text above by matching words in it. It is not legal advice, not a lawyer’s interpretation, and not a substitute for the provision itself.

How to cite this

Constitution of India, article 256, Portable Lawyer, https://www.portablelawyer.app/provision/59352e19-6860-4d8b-8d60-69f8f453c397 (accessed 25 October 2026).

Canonical URL: https://www.portablelawyer.app/provision/59352e19-6860-4d8b-8d60-69f8f453c397

Accessed 25 October 2026.

Link to the canonical URL above, not to a #section-… fragment on the jurisdiction page — the fragment is a scroll position, this URL is the provision.

Machine-readable versions

Markdown of this provision (sent as text/markdown)
llms.txt (curated index for AI agents)
llms-full.txt (corpus digest: counts and every provision URL)