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Indian Polity

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Who presides over the meetings of the Lok Sabha?

  1. Speaker

  2. Vice President

  3. Prime Minister

  4. President


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, both presiding officers - Speaker and Deputy Speaker - are elected from among its members by a simple majority of members present and voting in the house. As such, no specific qualifications are prescribed for being elected as the Speaker.

The Parliament can make law for the whole or any part of India for implementing international treaties

  1. with the consent of all the states

  2. with the consent of majority of states

  3. with the consent of states concerned

  4. without the consent of any state


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct Answer: without the consent of any state

  1. Legislation for giving effect to international agreements - Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, Parliament has power to make any law for the whole or any part of the territory of India for implementing any treaty, agreement or convention with any other country or countries or any decision made at any international conference, association or other body.

Who has been the only Lok Sabha speaker to have become the president of India?

  1. Gyani Zail Singh

  2. V. V. Giri

  3. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

  4. K. R. Narayanan


Correct Option: C

Who among the following took over as Chief Election Commissioner from B.B. Tandon?

  1. M. Damodaran

  2. N. Gopalaswamy

  3. Y. V. Reddy

  4. S. Y. Qureshi


Correct Option: B

Who among the following had the longest tenure as the Prime Minister of India?

  1. Morarji Desai

  2. Charan Singh

  3. V. P. Singh

  4. Lal Bhadur Shastri


Correct Option: A

Consider the following statements—

  1. In the Lok Sabha, 12 members are nominated by the President of India.
  2. In the Rajya Sabha, a maximum of 2 members of the Anglo-Indian community can be nominated by the President of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 In Rajya Sabha, 12 members are nominated by the President.

The President nominates 2 Anglo-Indian members to the Lok Sabha if he finds that they are not adequately represented.

When did the United Nations Organization come into existence?

  1. October 24, 1945

  2. October 24, 1943

  3. November 26, 1945

  4. November 26, 1943


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: October 24, 1945 The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international cooperation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on October 24, 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.

What does the Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003 deal with?

  1. Creation of a separate National Commission for scheduled tribes

  2. Cyber crime

  3. Inclusion of Bodo, Dogri, Maithali and Santhali languages in the Eighth Schedule

  4. Making right to free and compulsory education a fundamental right


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The ninety-second amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Bodo, Dogri, Santhali and Maithali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to 22.

What is the period of appointment of the comptroller and Auditor General of India?

  1. 6 years

  2. 6 years or 65 years of age whichever is earlier

  3. Upto 65 years of age

  4. Upto 64 years of age


Correct Option: B

Which of the following Motions can the Council of Ministers in India move?

  1. No confidence Motion

  2. Censure Motion

  3. Adjournment Motion

  4. Confidence Motion


Correct Option: D

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists— ||||| |---|---|---|---| | List I| State| List II| (Full statehood granted in)| | A.| Goa| 1.| 1966| | B.| Haryana| 2.| 1972| | C.| Meghalaya| 3.| 1975| | D.| Sikkim| 4..| 1987|

  1. (A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4

  2. (A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 3

  3. (A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 4

  4. (A) 4 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3


Correct Option: D

Who has given this statement?

Man is born free but he is always in chains.

  1. Locke

  2. Rousseaue

  3. Benthan

  4. Robert Mill


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following is the time limit for the ratification of an emergency period by the Parliament?

  1. 14 days

  2. 1 Month

  3. 3 Months

  4. 6 Months


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following expenditures is not charged on the consolidated fund of India?

  1. Salary and allowances of the president of India

  2. Salary and allowances of the Governor of a State of India

  3. Salary and allowances of the justice of the Supreme Court of India

  4. Salary and allowances of the speaker of the Lok Sabha


Correct Option: B

What is the minimum age laid down for a candidate to seek election to the Lok Sabha?

  1. 18 years

  2. 21 years

  3. 25 years

  4. 30 years


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The minimum age for getting elected to the lower house is 25 years.

Who among the following is constitutionally empowered to declare a geographic area as a scheduled area?

  1. Governor

  2. Chief Minister

  3. Prime Minister

  4. President


Correct Option: D

Given below are two statements

Assertion (A): Powers for conducting elections to the Parliament and state legislatures in a free and fair manner have been given to an independent body i.e. the Election Commission.

Reason (R): Power of removal of Election Commissioners is with the executive.

In the context of above, which one of the following is correct?

Codes :

  1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

  2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

  3. A is true but R is false

  4. A is false but R is true


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 E.C. is an independent body so that the members of the body are not influnced by the legislators. They are appointed and removed by the President.

Which are the two states (other than UP) having the highest representation in the Lok Sabha?

  1. Bihar and Madhya Pradesh

  2. West Bengal and Maharashtra

  3. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

  4. Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct Answer: West Bengal and Maharashtra Maharashtra - 48 West Bengal - 42 Andhra Pradesh - 42 Bihar - 40

The first day session of the Indian Constituent Assembly was chaired by�

  1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  2. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

  3. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

  4. Dr. Sachchidanand Sinha


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is not included in the directive principles of state policy?

  1. Prohibition of liquor

  2. Right to work

  3. Equal wage for equal work

  4. Right to information


Correct Option: D

The bureaucracy performs

  1. only administrative functions

  2. only judicial functions

  3. only legislative functions

  4. administrative as well as quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative functions


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 1. Bureaucracy plays an important role in formulation and implementation of policies. They work out the details of the bill keeping their administrative concinience in view.

  1. They also take decisions of quasi-judicial nature. Some of these decisions taken by these civil-servants in certain types of cases is final and can't be challenged in any court of law.

The President of the Union of India has the same constitutional authority as the�

  1. British Monarch

  2. President of USA

  3. President of Pakistan

  4. President of France


Correct Option: C

Who can be the member of the Rajya Sabha but can speak both in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha?

  1. The Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha

  2. Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha

  3. Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha

  4. Ministers who are members of the Rajya Sabha


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Ministers can also be drawn from Rajya Sabha and they are responsible to the peoples' representation house i.e. the Lok Sabha. Hence, they speak in both the houses.

Who is known as the first law officer of India?

  1. Chief Justice of India

  2. Law Minister of India

  3. Attorney General of India

  4. Law Secretary


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Attorney General of India is the Indian government's chief legal advisor and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.

Which organ is the custodian of the National purse?

  1. Executive

  2. Judiciary

  3. Legislature

  4. Civil Servants


Correct Option: C

Who was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India?

  1. Morarji Desai

  2. Vallabbhai Patel

  3. G. B. Pant

  4. Devi Lal


Correct Option: B

Under which constitution amendment, 10 fundamental duties of the citizens were included in the constitution?

  1. 24th

  2. 38th

  3. 42nd

  4. 44th


Correct Option: C

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists�

List - I (Names) List-II (Events)
(a) Hobbes 1. French Revolution
(b) Rouseau 2. Glorious Revolution
(c) Locke 3. Execution of Charles
(d) Hitler 4. Second World war
  1. (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4

  2. (a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 4

  3. (a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 3

  4. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 3


Correct Option: B

Who decides the office of profit?

  1. President and Governor

  2. Union Parliament

  3. Supreme Court

  4. Union Public Service Commission


Correct Option: C

The electoral college that elects the Vice-President of India consists of

  1. members of Rajya Sabha only

  2. elected members of both the Houses of the Parliament

  3. members of both the Houses of the Parliament

  4. members of the Rajya Sabha and the Legislative Assemblies of states


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following is not a constitutional body?

  1. Election Commission

  2. Finance Commission

  3. Planning Commission

  4. Union Public Service Commission


Correct Option: C

What is the maximum time interval permissible between two successive sessions of the Parliament?

  1. Four months

  2. Six months

  3. Eight months

  4. Nine months


Correct Option: B

How many times has financial emergency been declared in India so far?

  1. 5 times

  2. 4 times

  3. Once

  4. Never


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Never If the President is satisfied that there is an economic situation in which the financial stability or credit of India is threatened, he or she can declare financial emergency. Such an emergency must be approved by the Parliament within two months. It has never been declared. Such a situation had arisen, but was avoided by putting the gold assets of India as collateral for foreign credit.

Rajya Sabha can delay the Finance Bill sent for its consideration by the Lok Sabha for a maximum period of

  1. one month

  2. 3 months

  3. seven days

  4. fourteen days


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

As per the provisions of Article 109 of the Constitution, the Rajya Sabha has limited powers with respect to Money Bills. A Money Bill after having been passed by the Lok Sabha, and sent to Rajya Sabha for its recommendations, has to be returned to the Lok Sabha by the Rajya Sabha, within a period of fourteen days from the date of its receipt, with or without recommendations.

To be officially recognised by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha as an opposition group, a party or coalition of parties must have at least

  1. 55 members

  2. 60 members

  3. 80 members

  4. 1/3 of total members of the Lok Sabha


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A political party is officially accorded the status of an opposition party in the Lok Sabha, only if it secures at least 10 percent of the seats. Maximum strength of the Lok Sabha is 552. So, opposition group has to have 55 members.

Panchayats at the intermediate level may not be constituted in a state having a population less than

  1. ten lakhs

  2. fifteen lakhs

  3. twenty lakhs

  4. twenty five lakhs


Correct Option: C

The right to vote in elections to a Parliament is a

  1. fundamental right

  2. political right

  3. legal right

  4. natural right


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The right to vote is not a fundamental right as its violation cannot be challenged in court of law. It is not a legal right. It is a constitutional right which has been granted by Indian constitution.

The Comptroller and Auditor General is appointed by the President. He can be removed

  1. by the President

  2. on the address from both the Houses of the Parliament

  3. by the Supreme Court

  4. on the recommendation of the President by the Supreme Court


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following is not a department in the Ministry of Human Resource Development?

  1. Department of Eelementary Education and Literacy

  2. Department of Secondary and Higher Education

  3. Department of Technical Education

  4. Department of Women and Child Development


Correct Option: D

According to the preamble of the Constitution, India is a

  1. sovereign democratic socialist republic

  2. sovereign socialist secular republic

  3. sovereign democratic republic

  4. sovereign socialist secular democratic republic


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation; IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

A member of the Union Public Service Commission can be removed by the

  1. President

  2. Prime Minister

  3. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

  4. Chairman of the UPSC


Correct Option: A

The Finance Commission is primarily concerned with recommending to the President about

  1. the principle governing grants in aid to be given to the states

  2. distributing the net proceeds of the taxes between the centre and the states

  3. neither (A) nor (B)

  4. both (A) and (B)


Correct Option: D

A Money Bill in the Parliament can be introduced only with the recommendation of the

  1. President of India

  2. Union Cabinet

  3. Speaker of the Lok Sabha

  4. Union Finance Minister


Correct Option: A

Who among the following is the Chairman of the Steering Committee to oversee the functions of the National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)?

  1. The President

  2. The Prime Minister

  3. The National Security Adviser

  4. The Cabinet Secretary


Correct Option: D

Right to education to all children between the age of 6 to 14 years is�

  1. Included in the directive principles of state policy

  2. A Fundamental Right

  3. A Statutory Right

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Setting up of which of the following is not stated in the Constitution of India?

  1. Planning Commission

  2. Finance Commission

  3. Election Commission

  4. Union Public Service Commission


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Planning Commission Authority for creation of the Planning Commission was not derived from the Constitution of India or statute; it is an arm of the Central Government of India.

Who among the following has not been a Chief Justice of India?

  1. R. C. Lahoti

  2. G. B. Pattanaik

  3. S. S. Gill

  4. V. N. Khare


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following political theories advocates the withering away of the state and ushering in a new society in which there will be no state and no ceasses?

  1. Liberalism

  2. Democratic Socialism

  3. Marxism

  4. Fabian Socialism


Correct Option: C

Who presides over the joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha?

  1. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha

  2. The Vice President

  3. The President

  4. The Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Speaker of the Lok Sabha presides over a joint session. This is his/her special function/power.

Where are the headquarters of the UNO?

  1. Geneva

  2. The Hague

  3. New York

  4. Paris


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The headquarters of the UNO are in New York.

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