Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 113

Sir B. N. Rau was the Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly and prepared its first draft, but he was not a member of the Drafting Committee.

Justice Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India from 22 February 1978 to 11 July 1985, a tenure of about seven years and four months, by far the longest any holder of the office has had.

All three statements describe the Preamble correctly. Statement 1 is correct: the Preamble is not a source of power and cannot by itself be enforced in a court; it is used to interpret the Constitution where the words of an Article are unclear.

The committee headed by Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy, appointed in 2004 to review AFSPA, reported in 2005 that the Act should be repealed and that the powers genuinely needed should instead be written into the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

All three statements describe the Right to Education as framed by Article 21A and the RTE Act, 2009.

The Portuguese Civil Code of 1867 was extended to Goa and continued in force after its liberation in 1961, so Goans of every religion are governed by largely the same rules on marriage, divorce and succession, with only a few community-specific usages surviving.

This is a Directive Principle under Article 43, not a Fundamental Duty. Fundamental Duties are listed in Article 51A, added in Part IVA by the 42nd Amendment of 1976 on the advice of the Swaran Singh Committee.

Article 105(3) authorises Parliament to define its privileges by law, but Parliament has never passed such a law, so the privileges remain uncodified and are drawn from the Constitution, the rules of the Houses, their precedents and the practice followed before the Forty-fourth Amendment.

Article 53 vests the executive power of the Union and the supreme command of the defence forces in the President, but it does not say the power is used only through subordinate officers.

Article 2 provides that Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.

Service as a subordinate magistrate is not one of the routes named in the Constitution.

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.

Since the 44th Amendment of 1978, a National Emergency can be declared only on the grounds of war, external aggression or armed rebellion.

Statements 1 and 2 swap the meanings of starred and unstarred questions; only statement 3 is right. A starred question, marked with an asterisk, is one to which the Member wants an oral answer on the floor of the House, and supplementary questions may follow it.

Unlike the President, the Governor of a state has no diplomatic or military powers. The Governor's powers are broadly similar to the President's in the executive, legislative and judicial fields, but defence and foreign affairs belong to the Union.

Demands for grants need the President's recommendation, but the Budget is laid on behalf of the President, not the Prime Minister.

Its Legislative Assembly has 294 elected seats, more than any other State in the list. Among the four, Bihar has 243 seats, Madhya Pradesh 230 and Tamil Nadu 234, so West Bengal clearly leads.

It is not correct, because Article 31B says the opposite: an Act placed in the Ninth Schedule shall not become void merely because it is inconsistent with a fundamental right in Part III.

Regional Commissioners are appointed by the President, not by the Election Commission. Article 324(1) vests in the Election Commission the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections to Parliament, to every State Legislature and to the offices of President and Vice-President.

The National Commission for Women is a statutory body set up under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990. Parliament passed the Act in 1990, and the Commission was constituted in January 1992.