Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 18

Courts can review a pardon on limited grounds, but the President always acts on the advice of the Union Council of Ministers.

Under the Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha, a member who wants to move a resolution to remove the Speaker must give notice of it in writing to the Secretary General.

The two statements are reversed: the Estimates Committee is a standing committee, and the Railway Convention Committee is an ad hoc committee.

Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution in the Constituent Assembly on 13 December 1946, and the Assembly adopted it on 22 January 1947.

Demands for grants need the President's recommendation, but the Budget is laid on behalf of the President, not the Prime Minister.

The President, not the Governor, specifies Scheduled Tribes, and the list is made state by state.

The Supreme Court has held that choosing one's life partner is part of the right to life and personal liberty.

The Act runs for 15 years and reserves seats for SC women inside the SC quota, but it did not start with the 18th Lok Sabha.

A Constitution Bench of five judges headed by Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud decided In Re: Article 370 of the Constitution on 11 December 2023.

A retired judge of the Supreme Court, she chaired the Delimitation Commission set up in March 2020 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which gave its final order in May 2022.

Article 370(1)(c) said that Article 1, which declares India a Union of States and lists its territory in the First Schedule, and Article 370 itself applied to the State; everything else could reach it only through a presidential order made with the concurrence of the State government.

The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the State Constitution on 17 November 1956 and it came into force on 26 January 1957, the day the Assembly dissolved itself.

The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.

The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…

The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954, issued by the President under Article 370(1)(d), added Article 35A at the end of Part III.

Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.

Article 370 was one of the articles of Part XXI of the Constitution, which is titled Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions, and its marginal heading read Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

A bench of five judges decided it in 2022 and upheld the Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019, which provides up to ten per cent reservation for the economically weaker sections, by a majority of three to two.

It reserves seats in the House of the People, that is the Lok Sabha, for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, the number being in proportion to their population; there is no reservation of seats for the Other Backward Classes in Parliament.