4 Role and Responsibility of the Provincial Head (Articles 163–167)

The province's ceremonial apex and the federation's representative (163(1)): appointed by the President (not elected locally — the federal link's design); 5 years, once per province (163(3)-(4)); qualifications 35 years, FP-eligible (164); acts on the provincial CoM's recommendation through the CM (166(2)) — the same bound-executive formula; the reserve functions: CM appointment ladder (168), provincial assembly summoning/prorogation (183), provincial assent- and-referral, dissolution in the Article-168(7) deadlock, the acting role in emergency/federal rule (162(1) proviso); oath before the President (167); informed by the CM of CoM decisions and bills (173). The comparison to write: Provincial Head ≠ Governor of India — no discretionary pocket-veto, no solo dismissal power; the office's federal-representative logic (the unitary moments of Articles 232(3) belong to the President, not the Provincial Head).