Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 48

Part II of the Constitution runs from Article 5 to Article 11.

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, which contains Articles 5 to 11. These provisions settle who became a citizen of India at the commencement of the Constitution on 26 January 1950 and, through Article 11, leave all later law on citizenship to Parliament.

Parliament passed it under Article 327 to govern the conduct of elections: the qualifications and disqualifications of candidates, the nomination and the security deposit, corrupt practices such as bribery and undue influence, electoral offences, the filling of casual vacancies by by-election and the trial of election petitions by the High…

Article 324(5) says the Chief Election Commissioner shall not be removed from office except in like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court, so it takes an order of the President after each House of Parliament has passed an address by a special majority…

The correct answer is A, Sukumar Sen, an officer of the Indian Civil Service who held office from 1950 to 1958 and conducted the first two general elections, of 1951-52 and 1957, for an electorate that was largely unlettered and had never voted before.

The first use of an electronic voting machine in an Indian election was in 1982 at North Paravur in Kerala, in a by-election where the machine was used in a limited number of polling stations.

Section 34 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 requires a candidate for a Lok Sabha seat to deposit 25,000 rupees, and a candidate belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe deposits half of it.

Article 243K, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, gives the superintendence, direction and control of panchayat elections to a State Election Commission consisting of a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor, and Article 243ZA does the same for municipalities.

The correct answer is C, the 61st Amendment Act, passed in 1988, which amended Article 326 and lowered the voting age for elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies from 21 years to 18, so that the enlarged electorate voted in the general election of 1989.

It is the first article of Part XV and places the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and of the conduct of all elections to Parliament, the State legislatures and the offices of the President and the Vice-President in the Election Commission of India.

A VVPAT unit is attached to the balloting unit of an electronic voting machine and prints a slip showing the serial number, name and symbol of the candidate the voter has chosen; the slip is visible through a window for about seven seconds and then drops into a sealed box…

Article 324(2) says the Chief Election Commissioner and the other Election Commissioners shall be appointed by the President, and under the Act of 2023 the President acts on the recommendation of a Selection Committee of the Prime Minister, a Union Cabinet Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the…

All three statements describe real features of the Indian Constitution, so all of them have to be counted. Universal adult suffrage was there from the first general election itself.

Section 16 of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 extends the collective-fine provision of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 to atrocities, and the power to impose and recover a collective fine on the inhabitants of an area rests with the State Government.

Article 338 provides for the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, a constitutional body that investigates and monitors the safeguards given to Scheduled Castes, enquires into specific complaints and reports to the President, who places the report before Parliament.

A pressure group is an organised body of people with a shared interest that tries to influence government policy without contesting elections or seeking power itself, so a trade union pressing for better wages is the classic example.

Section 29(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 says the curriculum and the evaluation procedure for elementary education shall be laid down by an academic authority notified by the appropriate government, and the Central Government notified the National Council of Educational Research and Training…

Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and is counted as its founder member and first president. The party was launched at Delhi in October 1951 as a nationalist alternative to the Congress.

The Advocate General is the highest law officer of a state and advises the state government on legal matters.

Article 88 gives the Attorney General the right to speak in and otherwise take part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, any joint sitting and any committee of which the office holder is named a member, but without the right to vote.