Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 68

Article 15(2) says no citizen can be denied access to, or the use of, wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

The 2023 delimitation in Assam used the 2001 Census figures, but it raised the number of Assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

Directive Principles do not have precedence over Fundamental Rights; in a conflict, the Fundamental Rights generally prevail. Directive Principles are in Part IV, Articles 36 to 51.

PIL in India relaxes the rule of locus standi, so statement 1 is wrong, while statements 2 and 3 are correct.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but NOTA does not apply to the presidential election. The Election Commission conducts the election under Article 324 and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952.

The Rule of Law Index is published by the World Justice Project, an independent organisation based in Washington, D.C. The World Justice Project ranks countries on how far the rule of law is followed in practice, based on surveys of households and legal experts.

Of the four States listed, Tamil Nadu has the most seats in the Rajya Sabha, 18. The Council of States (Rajya Sabha) is the upper house of Parliament.

The Act bars the Lokpal from entertaining a complaint if more than seven years have passed since the offence complained of was committed, a period of limitation meant to keep the body from being used for very old disputes.

Article 124(3) allows such a person to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court.

In this 1992 case, also called the Mandal case, the Supreme Court held that the creamy layer must be kept out of OBC reservation.

The Governor acts in discretion only where the Constitution allows it, which includes running an adjoining Union Territory. Article 163 says the Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister aids and advises the Governor, except where the Constitution requires the Governor to act in discretion.

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.

The Supreme Court has counted all three among the basic features that Parliament cannot destroy. The basic structure doctrine was laid down in Kesavananda Bharati (1973): Parliament can amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368 but cannot alter its basic structure.

Article 124A gave the National Judicial Appointments Commission six members: the Chief Justice of India as ex officio chairperson, the two next senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, the Union Minister of Law and Justice, and two eminent persons nominated by a committee consisting of the Prime Minister, the Chief…

The DMK government of Tamil Nadu set up the Rajamannar Committee in 1969 to study Centre-State relations. The three-member committee was headed by Dr P.V.

Restructuring military commands for the best use of resources, including joint and theatre commands, is a task of the Department of Military Affairs, not of the Department of Defence.

This Act has never been added to the Ninth Schedule; the other three were placed in it by constitutional amendments.

The North Eastern Council was created under the North Eastern Council Act, 1971 and began work in 1972 at Shillong.

The Constitution makes itself supreme, not any one organ; it balances parliamentary sovereignty with judicial review. India took a middle path between the British idea of parliamentary sovereignty and the American idea of judicial supremacy.

The Public Accounts Committee is constituted afresh every year, so each member's term is one year. The PAC was first set up in 1921 under the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.