Indian Polity Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 29

Being eligible to vote is not enough to become a minister, and the disqualification after a conviction is not permanent.

Part IV holds the Directive Principles of State Policy, which no court can enforce but which the State must apply in making laws.

Article 79 says that there shall be a Parliament for the Union which shall consist of the President and two Houses.

Both Gandhi and Marx saw the State as an instrument of coercion and imagined an ideal society in which it would no longer be needed.

The Directive Principles in Part IV lay down the social and economic goals that make India a welfare state.

PESA applies to the Scheduled Areas of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan, and these ten States must bring their Panchayati Raj laws in line with it.

Article 32 is the right to constitutional remedies, and it sits in Part III, the chapter of Fundamental Rights, which runs from Article 12 to Article 35.

Article 76 requires the Attorney General to be a person qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, which is why the paper puts the answer as Supreme Court Judge.

Article 3 deals only with territory that is already part of India.

Article 338A was inserted by the 89th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003, which split the earlier joint commission into two separate bodies and gave the Scheduled Tribes a commission of their own from 2004.

The Supreme Court issues writs under Article 32, which is itself a fundamental right and can be used only to enforce fundamental rights.

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

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.

A parliamentary system rests on the executive answering to the legislature, so the council of ministers stays in office only while it keeps the confidence of the House.

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.

Mandamus is a Latin word meaning we command, and the writ is an order from a court to a public official, a public body, a corporation or a lower court to perform a public duty it has refused to do.

Mizoram is a full state, not a Union Territory. It was carved out of Assam as a Union Territory in 1972, and after the Mizo Accord of 1986 it became a state on 20 February 1987 under the 53rd Constitutional Amendment, on the same day as Arunachal Pradesh.

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.

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.

Article 168 provides for the constitution of Legislatures in the states. It says every state shall have a Legislature made up of the Governor and either one House or two Houses.