Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 26

Part XX contains Article 368 alone, which lays down the power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and the procedure for doing so: a Bill introduced in either House, passed by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a two-thirds majority of the members present and…

Part IX-A, Articles 243-P to 243-ZG, was inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992 and gives constitutional status to urban local bodies, providing for three types of municipalities, ward committees, five-year terms, reservation of seats, the State Election Commission, the State Finance Commission and the Twelfth Schedule of eighteen…

Part XVIII, Articles 352 to 360, contains the Emergency provisions: Article 352 provides for a Proclamation of Emergency on the ground of war, external aggression or armed rebellion, Articles 353 to 355 state its effects and the duty of the Union to protect States, Article 356 provides for President's rule…

Part VII contained only Article 238 and dealt with the administration of the States specified in Part B of the First Schedule, that is, the former princely States such as Mysore, Travancore-Cochin and Hyderabad.

Part IV-A was inserted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976 on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee, and it consists of a single article, Article 51A, which originally listed ten Fundamental Duties; an eleventh duty, on providing education to a child between six and fourteen years, was added…

Part II of the Constitution, Articles 5 to 11, deals with citizenship: Article 5 lays down who became a citizen at the commencement of the Constitution, Articles 6 and 7 settle the position of persons who migrated from and to Pakistan, Article 8 covers persons of Indian origin living abroad…

Article 94(b) provides that the Speaker may resign his office by writing under his hand addressed to the Deputy Speaker, and the Deputy Speaker resigns by writing addressed to the Speaker.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Amendment Act of 2003, provides that the total number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, in the Council of Ministers of a State shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly, and that the number shall…

Article 148(1) provides that the Comptroller and Auditor General shall be removed from office only in like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court, which means an address by each House supported by the special majority of Article 124(4), on the ground of proved…

Article 124(4) provides that a judge of the Supreme Court may be removed by an order of the President only after an address by each House of Parliament, supported by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the…

Under Article 67(b), the Vice-President may be removed by a resolution of the Rajya Sabha passed by a majority of all the then members of that House and agreed to by the Lok Sabha, and no such resolution may be moved unless at least fourteen days' notice has been given.

Article 61 lays down the procedure for impeaching the President for violation of the Constitution: the charge must be preferred by either House after at least fourteen days' notice signed by not less than one-fourth of the members of that House, and must be passed by not less than two-thirds…

Article 159 requires every Governor, before entering upon his office, to make an oath in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court having jurisdiction in relation to that State, or, in his absence, the senior-most judge of that court available.

Article 60 lays down the form of the President's oath and requires that it be made in the presence of the Chief Justice of India, or, in his absence, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court available.

Article 56(1)(a) provides that the President may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Vice-President, resign his office, and the Vice-President must communicate the resignation forthwith to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Article 156 deals with the term of office of the Governor: clause (1) says that the Governor holds office during the pleasure of the President, clause (2) allows him to resign by writing addressed to the President, and clause (3) fixes his normal term at five years from the date…

This is a Directive Principle of State Policy under Article 51, a duty of the State, not a fundamental duty of citizens.

Both articles protect certain laws from being struck down on the ground that they violate Article 14 or Article 19.

This body within the Department of Telecommunications is in charge of carrying out the Government's telecom policy. The Telecom Commission was set up in 1989 with administrative and financial powers to deal with all aspects of telecommunications, and in 2018 it was renamed the Digital Communications Commission.

As Chief Justice of India, he set up the Social Justice Bench of the Supreme Court in December 2014.