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A Pradhan or an Upa-Pradhan of a Gram Panchayat may, at any time, be removed from office by a resolution of the Gram Panchayat carried by the majority of the existing members of the Gram Panchayat at a meeting specially convened for the purpose. Notice of such meeting shall be given to the prescribed authority: Provided that at any such meeting while any resolution for the removal of the Pradhan from his office is under consideration, the Pradhan, or while any resolution for the removal of the Upa-Pradhan from his office is under consideration, the Upa-Pradhan, shall not, though he is present, preside, and the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 16 shall apply in relation to every such meeting as they apply in relation to a meeting from which the Pradhan or, as the case may be, the Upa-Pradhan is absent.