Indian Polity & Constitution MCQs

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Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to Lok Sabha and it remains in office till it enjoys confidence of majority of the members in Lok Sabha. Thus, a motion of no-confidence is moved to remove the council of ministers and thus oust the government from office.
Following are conditions of No-confidence motion:

• No-confidence motion can be moved only in Lok Sabha {or state assembly as the case may be}. It is not allowed in Rajya Sabha {or state legislative council}
• It is moved against the entire Council of Ministers and not individual ministers or private members.
• It needs support of at least 50 members when introduced in Lok Sabha.

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A Judge of the Supreme Court (and also High Court) can be removed from his position by President only on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity. The power for investigation and proof of such misbehaviour or incapacity is vested in the parliament. Each house, in order to remove the judge, will have to pass a resolution which is supported by 2/3rd of members present and voting and majority of the total membership of the house {absolute + special majority}

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Electronic voting machines can handle only 16 candidate choices per machine. If there are more than 16 candidates, four EVMs can be connected in series to a single master controller to handle 64 candidates.

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The salary of High Court judges is charged from Consolidated Fund of State; while pension of the High Court Judges comes from Consolidated Fund of India.

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74th Amendment added Part IXA titled “The Municipalities” to the constitution. It provides constitutional recognition to the Municipalities and lays down that in every state two district Planning Committees shall be constituted.

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The Article 368 of the Constitution of India deals with the procedure for amendment of the Indian Constitution. Article 368 cannot be used to destroy or damage the basic elements or the fundamental features of the Constitution.

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First Women Chief Ministers of Indian states are as follows:

State	Chief Minister
Assam	Syeda Anwara Taimur
Bihar	Rabri Devi
Delhi	Sushma Swaraj
Gujarat	Anandiben Patel
Goa, Daman & Diu	Shashikala Kakodkar
Madhya Pradesh	Uma Bharti
Odisha	Nandini Satpathy
Punjab	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
Rajasthan	Vasundhara Raje
Tamilnadu	Janaki Ramachandran
Uttar Pradesh	Sucheta Kriplani
West Bengal	Mamta Banerjee
Jammu & Kashmir (erstwhile)	Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed

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From 1991 to 2000, Indian parliament saw maximum number of prime ministers. During this period 6 prime ministers took oath. Atal Bihari Vajpayee took oath 3 times in this decade.

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Constitution (97^th) Amendment Act, 2011 gave a constitutional status and protection to co-operative societies. This amendment made the following three changes in the constitution:

• It made the right to form co-operative societies a fundamental right (Article 19)
• It included a new Directive Principle of State Policy on the promotion of co-operative societies (Article 43-B).
• It added a new Part IX-B in the constitution which is entitled as “The Co-operative societies” (Articles 243-ZH to 243-ZT).

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The term ‘armed rebellion’ did not exist in the original constitution but was inserted by the 44th Constitutional Amendment Act (1978) replacing the original term ‘internal disturbance.