| - Disqualifications for Membership in Constitution of India, 1950
Disqualifications for Membership.
(1) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of either House of Parliament--
(a) if he holds any office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State, other than an office declared by Parliament by law not to disqualify its holder;
(b) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;
(c) if he is an undischarged insolvent;
(d) if he is not a citizen of India, or has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State, or is under any acknowledgement of allegiance or adherence to a foreign State;
(e) if he is so disqualified by or under any law made by Parliament.
1[Explanation.-- For the purposes of this clause] a person shall not be deemed to hold an office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State by reason only that he is a Minister either for the Union or for such State.
2(2) A person shall be disqualified for being a member of either House of Parliament if he is so disqualified under the Tenth Schedule.]
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1. Substituted by the Constitution (Fifty-second Amendment) Act, 1985, section 3, for "(2) For the purposes of this article" (w.e.f. 1-3-1985).
2. Inserted by the Constitution (Fifty-second Amendment) Act, 1985, section 3 (w.e.f. 1-3-1985).