Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 38

Parliament frames a charge, takes evidence and gives the President a hearing, so the two Houses act like a court even though they are law-making bodies.

The Inter-State Council was constituted in 1990 by a presidential order acting on this commission's report on centre-state relations. Article 263 empowers the President to set up such a council to inquire into disputes between states, discuss subjects of common interest and make recommendations.

Article 75(3) says the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People, that is the Lok Sabha.

The Fifth Schedule lets the Governor make regulations for the peace and good government of a Scheduled Area, and it names three matters such a regulation may cover: it may prohibit or restrict the transfer of land by or among members of the Scheduled Tribes, regulate the allotment of land…

Article 243G allows a state legislature to endow Panchayats with the powers and authority they need to work as institutions of self-government.

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 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…

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.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2015 merged the older Person of Indian Origin card scheme into the Overseas Citizen of India scheme, so that holders of PIO cards were treated as OCI cardholders and only one category remained.

The anti-defection law sits in the Tenth Schedule, which sets out when a member of Parliament or of a State legislature loses the seat for defecting.

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

The Sarkaria Commission said the Governor should be a detached figure chosen without regard to party, and ideally someone who has not taken an active part in politics in the recent past or belonged to the ruling party at the centre.

Criminal procedure is an entry of the Concurrent List, List III of the Seventh Schedule, along with criminal law and the law of evidence, which is why the code of criminal procedure has always been a central law that States may amend with the President's assent.

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 76 provides for the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union, appointed by the President from among persons qualified to be a judge of the Supreme Court.

Article 161 lets the Governor grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions of punishment, and suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of an offence against a law on a matter to which the executive power of the state extends.

The Bharatiya Janata Party was founded on 6 April 1980, after the Janata Party broke up. Its ancestor was the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, started by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951.

The Second Backward Classes Commission, headed by B. P. Mandal, recommended 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in central government services and public undertakings.

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…

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 provides that Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered India on or before 31 December 2014 shall not be treated as illegal migrants and are eligible for citizenship, with the qualifying period for naturalisation reduced from eleven years…