As per the Constitution of India, choose the correct statement regarding the…

In a parliamentary democracy the executive is not elected separately from the legislature — the ministry is drawn from the legislature and stays in office only while it holds the confidence of the directly elected chamber. 'Collective responsibility' means the Council of Ministers acts and answers as a single body: if the ministry loses that confidence, the entire Council must resign together, not merely the individual minister concerned.

Article 75(3) of the Constitution of India states this rule directly: 'The Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People.' The House of the People (Lok Sabha) is the popularly elected lower house, and it is the body that can remove the government by passing a motion of no-confidence. Hence the correct statement is that the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People.

Why the other statements do not fit:

• Responsible to the President of India: under Article 75(1) and 75(2) the President appoints the ministers and they hold office during the President's pleasure, but that is a formal, nominal relationship of appointment — it is not the doctrine of collective responsibility.

• Responsible to the Prime Minister: the Prime Minister leads the Council and recommends who is appointed or dropped, yet the Constitution does not make the ministry collectively responsible to the head of government personally.

• None of the above: since one of the statements states the position the Constitution actually lays down, rejecting every statement is incorrect.

Cross-check: read Article 75 as a whole — clause (2) ties each minister individually to the President's pleasure, while clause (3) fixes the ministry's collective answerability to the elected House. The two clauses operate at different levels, which is why only the House of the People satisfies the collective-responsibility test.