Explanation:

he doctrine of colorable legislation' signifies only a limitation Of the law making power of the legislature. It comes into picture while the legislature purporting . to act within its power but in reality it has transgressed those powers. So the doctrine becomes applicable whenever legislation seeks to do in an indirect manner what it cannot  do directly. If such. legislation Us falls within the competence of -legislature, the question of doing something indirectly Which cannot be done directly 'does not arise. (KC Gajapti v. teof Orissa }