Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 50

It is the opening article of the group on Public Service Commissions and says that there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and a Public Service Commission for each state, with the further provision that two or more states may have a Joint Commission created by Parliament…

Article 317(1) provides that the chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission, whether of the Union or of a state, shall be removed from office only by order of the President on the ground of misbehaviour, and only after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry on…

Article 321 allows additional functions to be conferred on a Public Service Commission, and it names two different authorities for the two kinds of Commission: Parliament may extend the functions of the Union Public Service Commission, while the legislature of a state may extend the functions of that state's Public…

Article 316(2) says that a member of the Union Public Service Commission holds office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office, or until he attains the age of sixty-five years, whichever is earlier.

The chairman of the Union Public Service Commission is removed by the President under Article 317, and for misbehaviour only after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry on the President's reference and reported against him.

Statement 1 is wrong because the Constitution nowhere uses the expression basic structure or defines it. The doctrine is a creation of the Supreme Court in Kesavananda Bharati in 1973, and the courts have added features to it case by case, which is why no closed list exists.

Passed in 2023 and called the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, it inserted Articles 330A and 332A to reserve one third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and in the state legislative assemblies, as well as in the Delhi assembly, for women, the reservation to take effect after the delimitation…

For matters such as the election of the President, the extent of the executive power of the Union and the states, the Supreme Court and the High Courts, the Seventh Schedule, the representation of states in Parliament and Article 368 itself, the bill must first be passed by each House…

It inserted Articles 31A and 31B along with the Ninth Schedule, so that land reform and zamindari abolition laws placed in that schedule could not be challenged for violating the Fundamental Rights.

Passed in 1989, it amended Article 326 and lowered the voting age for elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies from twenty-one years to eighteen years, which brought a very large number of young voters on to the rolls for the general election that followed.

The Forty-second Amendment had added clause 4, saying that no amendment shall be called in question in any court, and clause 5, saying that the amending power of Parliament was unlimited.

Enacted in 1976 on the recommendations of the Swaran Singh Committee, it changed so many provisions at one stroke that it is called the mini Constitution: it added the Fundamental Duties in Part IVA, inserted the words socialist, secular and integrity in the Preamble, extended the term of the Lok…

It was passed in answer to the Golaknath ruling. It amended Article 13 and Article 368 to make clear that Parliament could take away or abridge a Fundamental Right by amendment, and it made the President's assent to such a bill compulsory, so an amendment bill can neither be withheld…

In Golaknath in 1967 an eleven judge bench held by six to five that Parliament had no power to amend the Fundamental Rights.

A bench of thirteen judges, the largest ever assembled at the time, held by a majority of seven to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution, including the Fundamental Rights, but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.

Part XX of the Constitution is a very short part, headed Amendment of the Constitution, and it contains Article 368 alone.

It is titled Power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and procedure therefor, and it sets out both the special majority needed in each House and the cases in which the legislatures of the states must also ratify the change.

Article 350-B provides that there shall be a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities appointed by the President, and the post is known in practice as the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities.

The Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 inserted this article on the recommendation of the States Reorganisation Commission and created the office of the Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities, known in practice as the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities.

Article 165 of the Constitution says the Governor shall appoint a person qualified to be a judge of a High Court as the Advocate General of the state, and he is the highest law officer of the state, the counterpart of the Attorney General at the Centre.