This info is from Rajya Sabha website. It doesn't clarify wheather nominated RS members can become ministers or not but it says it has not happened till now.
This is a quora post which gives example of nominated members of lok Sabha who went on to become ministers.
This is The wire article related to Uddhav Thakrey case. It says nominated state council members are not prohibited legally to be ministers but ideally that shouldn't happen.
So to answer your question:-
At central level ONLY nominated members of Lok Sabha ( not RS) can become ministers.
At state level nominated members of both Councils and Assembly can become ministers.
Hey, taking all what you said into account, what I concluded is that actually nominated members of both houses can go on to become ministers, because Constitution or any another statute doesn’t specifically exclude them. 😅
The fact that no nominated members have been inducted into the Council til date, or the various reasons on why they are not par with elected members in all aspects - does not negate the fact that they are still perfectly eligible to become ministers.
thats what i thought too .. and people have to go via the by-polls method as is happening in Kolkata coz nomination aint for anyone/everyone right?
President can act on his discretion with regards of :
1. Dismissal of the council of ministers when it cannot prove the confidence of the lok sabha.
2. Dissolution of the Lok Sabha if the council of ministers has lost its majority.
Now my question is is this a natural progression of events or can these two happen separately? if yes then in which situations?
