📜 Official Text

(1) Parliament may, exercising its constituent power, amend any Constitutional provision by addition, variation, or repeal, per this article's procedure. (2) An amendment starts as a Bill in either House, needing a majority of that House's total membership plus a two-thirds majority of those present and voting in each House - then goes to the President for assent, after which the Constitution stands amended. Amendments touching specific entrenched provisions (President/VP election, Union executive power, High Court powers, Union-State legislative relations, Seventh Schedule Lists, state representation in Parliament, or this article itself) additionally need ratification by at least half the State Legislatures before presidential assent. (3) Article 13 doesn't apply to amendments under this article. (4)-(5) [Added by the 42nd Amendment, 1976; both later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Minerva Mills v. Union of India, 1980] purported to bar all judicial review of amendments and declare Parliament's amending power unlimited.