{"id":159322,"date":"2022-01-07T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=159322"},"modified":"2022-03-10T18:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:24:05","slug":"article-159-of-indian-constitution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-159-of-indian-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 159 of Indian Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"next_prev d-flex justify-content-between\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-158-of-indian-constitution\/\" class=\"btn btn-outline-secondary\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-angle-left\"><\/i> Article 158<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-160-of-indian-constitution\/\" class=\"btn btn-outline-secondary ml-2\">Article 160<i class=\"fa-solid fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Oath or affirmation by the Governor.<\/strong>\u2014Every Governor and every person discharging the functions of the Governor shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the State, or, in his absence, the senior most Judge of that Court available, an oath or affirmation in the following form, that is to say\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">&#8220;I, A. B., do swear in the name of God that I will faithfully execute the<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 solemnly affirm<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">office of Governor (or discharge the functions of the Governor) of &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(name of the State)and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law and that I will devote myself to the service and well-being of the people of ..\u2026 (name of the State)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"next_prev d-flex justify-content-between\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-158-of-indian-constitution\/\" class=\"btn btn-outline-secondary\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-angle-left\"><\/i> Article 158<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-160-of-indian-constitution\/\" class=\"btn btn-outline-secondary ml-2\">Article 160<i class=\"fa-solid fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 158 Article 160 Oath or affirmation by the Governor.\u2014Every Governor and every person discharging the functions of the Governor shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the State, or, in his absence, the senior most Judge&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-159-of-indian-constitution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article 159 of Indian Constitution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10339,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}