Question

State any one reason on why the President is elected indirectly.

Answer 1

Hint:An indirect election is an election in which voters do not nominate between candidates for an office, but elect people who then choose.
Positions that are indirectly elected may be selected by a permanent body, such as a parliament or by a particular body assembled exclusively for that objective, such as an electoral college.
For example, the President of the United States is appointed indirectly.

Complete answer:
Under the system of Parliamentary Democracy present in India, the President is only the titular administrator and the actual power resides with the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister which is the actual executive.
The President is appointed indirectly as spending huge amounts of money, time and other aids for direct election of the nominal executive was not regarded essential by our Constitution makers.
The president is elected indirectly by an electoral college constituting the Parliament of India (both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) and the legislative assemblies of each of India's states and territories, who themselves are all directly appointed.
The election is held in accordance with the procedure of proportional representation (PR) by means of the single transferable vote (STV) procedure.
Under the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952, a nominee to be appointed for the office of president needs 50 electors as proposers and 50 electors as seconders for his name to come up on the ballot.

Note:Although Indian presidential elections include real voting by MPs and MLAs, they vote for the candidate assisted by their respective parties.
The first president of independent India was Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
The president may also be withdrawn before the expiry of their term through impeachment process for corrupting or violating the Constitution of India by the Parliament of India.