Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 55

Article 141 says the law declared by the Supreme Court shall be binding on all courts within the territory of India.

It gives the Supreme Court the power to review any judgment it has pronounced or any order it has made, subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament and the rules made by the Court under Article 145.

It declares that the Supreme Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court, including the power to punish for contempt of itself.

Under Article 131, the Supreme Court alone can hear, as a court of first instance, disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, between the Government of India and a State on one side and other States on the other, or between two or more States.

Under Article 124(4), a judge of the Supreme Court can be removed by an order of the President only after each House of Parliament, in the same session, presents an address supported by a majority of its total membership and by two-thirds of the members present and voting, on the…

Article 124(2) says a judge of the Supreme Court shall hold office until he or she attains the age of 65 years.

When the Supreme Court began in 1950, Article 124(1) provided for a Chief Justice of India and not more than seven other judges, eight in all, "until Parliament by law prescribes a larger number".

Article 148 of the Constitution provides for one Comptroller and Auditor General of India, so the office is held by a single person and not by a panel.

Section 8(1) of the Indian Independence Act, 1947 gave the Constituent Assembly of each new Dominion the powers of its legislature.

Under Article 316 of the Constitution, a member of the Union Public Service Commission holds office for six years from the day he takes charge, or until he turns 65, whichever comes first.

Article 316 of the Constitution fixes this term for the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission. The same article gives members of the Union Public Service Commission six years or the age of 65, so the six years is common and only the retiring age differs.

Article 32 gives every person the right to move the Supreme Court directly when a fundamental right is violated, and it is itself a fundamental right.

Article 151 deals with the audit reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution divides subjects into three lists. The Union List holds subjects only Parliament can legislate on, such as defence, foreign affairs, currency and railways.

The Citizenship Act of 1955 lays down five ways of acquiring Indian citizenship: by birth, by descent, by registration, by naturalisation and by incorporation of territory.

Article 85 of the Constitution deals with the sessions of Parliament, its prorogation and the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.

Article 164(2) says that the Council of Ministers in a state shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of that state, which is the rule that keeps a state government in office only while it holds the confidence of the Assembly and is the ground on which a no…

Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime Minister on 31 October 1984, the day his mother Indira Gandhi was assassinated, and Giani Zail Singh, who was President from 1982 to 1987, administered the oath.

The Election Commission of India became a multi-member body for the first time on 16 October 1989, when two Election Commissioners were appointed alongside the Chief Election Commissioner just before the general election of that year.

Article 213 gives the Governor the power to promulgate an ordinance when the state legislature is not in session and he or she is satisfied that circumstances make immediate action necessary.