Set 86 of the Indian Polity mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 9 different topics of the subject: One Nation One Election: Constitutional Aspects, Article 370 and the Reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir, Reservation in India: Constitutional Provisions, OBC and EWS Quotas and more. 5 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.
20 questions with answers and explanations
In which of the following year was the first general election held in India?
India's first general election was spread over the winter of 1951 and 1952 and is dated 1952, the year the first Lok Sabha and the first set of state legislative assemblies were constituted.
Read the full explanation →Article 370 of the Constitution of India was placed in which Part of the Constitution?
Article 370 was one of the articles of Part XXI of the Constitution, which is titled Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions, and its marginal heading read Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019 inserted which clauses to provide reservation for the economically weaker sections?
The 103rd Amendment Act of 2019 added clause (6) to Article 15 for reservation in admission to educational institutions and clause (6) to Article 16 for reservation in appointments, in each case up to ten per cent for the economically weaker sections of citizens who are not covered by the…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following are regarded as the main features of the "Rule of Law"?
1. Limitation of powers
2. Equality before law
3. People's responsibility to the Government
4. Liberty and civil rights
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
The Rule of Law means that power is limited by law, everyone is equal before the law, and individual liberties are protected.
Read the full explanation →Which article, inserted by a presidential order of 1954, empowered the Jammu and Kashmir legislature to define the permanent residents of the State and give them special rights?
The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954, issued by the President under Article 370(1)(d), added Article 35A at the end of Part III.
Read the full explanation →Under which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India, has the Supreme Court of India placed the Right to Privacy ?
The Supreme Court held that privacy is an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21.
Read the full explanation →In Indra Sawhney v. Union of India (1992), the Supreme Court directed that which group be excluded from the benefit of reservation?
The nine-judge bench in Indra Sawhney upheld the twenty-seven per cent quota for the Other Backward Classes but held that the socially advanced members of those classes, described as the creamy layer, must be excluded so that the benefit reaches the genuinely backward; the same judgment laid down the fifty…
Read the full explanation →The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 proposes to insert which new Article to provide for the appointed date and the synchronisation of assembly terms?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 December 2024, proposes a new Article 82A under which the President notifies an appointed date on the first sitting of the Lok Sabha after a general election, and the term of every assembly constituted…
Read the full explanation →The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into effect on its appointed day, which was:
The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…
Read the full explanation →Which Prime Minister of India was the first to lose a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha?
His National Front government lost the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha in November 1990 after the Bharatiya Janata Party withdrew support, and he resigned, becoming the first Prime Minister to be removed by a vote of the House rather than by resignation or an election.
Read the full explanation →Article 15(4) of the Constitution, allowing special provision for backward classes, was inserted by which Constitutional Amendment Act?
It was passed after the Supreme Court in State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan struck down a communal order reserving seats in colleges, holding that it offended Article 15(1); Parliament answered by adding clause (4) to Article 15, which permits special provision for the advancement of socially and educationally backward…
Read the full explanation →Under the Constitution of India, the Vice-President is the ex-officio Chairman of which body?
Article 64 provides that the Vice-President shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States, that is the Rajya Sabha, and shall hold no other office of profit; when he acts as President he does not perform the duties of Chairman and draws no salary as Chairman.
Read the full explanation →Of the two Union Territories created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which one was given no legislative assembly?
The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is/are correct?
1. In India, it adheres to the strict requirements imposed by the doctrine of locus standi.
2. Letters to judges may be treated as petitions.
3. M. C. Mehta vs. Union of India was a PIL that expanded the scope of Article 21 and Article 32 of the Constitution of India.
Select the answer using the code given below.
PIL in India relaxes the rule of locus standi, so statement 1 is wrong, while statements 2 and 3 are correct.
Read the full explanation →Which Constitutional Amendment added consequential seniority to the reservation in promotion under Article 16(4A)?
It amended Article 16(4A) so that a government servant of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes promoted under the reservation also keeps the seniority of the promoted post, which is called consequential seniority, and the change was given effect from 1995.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements are correct about the Constitution of India?
1. Powers of the Municipalities are given in Part IX A of the Constitution.
2. Emergency provisions are given in Part XVIII of the Constitution.
3. Provisions related to the amendment of the Constitution are given in Part XX of the Constitution.
Select the answer using the code given below:
All three statements match the Parts of the Constitution correctly. Part IX A, Articles 243P to 243ZG, was added by the 74th Amendment Act, 1992 and deals with the Municipalities, including their powers and functions under Article 243W and the Twelfth Schedule.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, framed by the State own Constituent Assembly, came into force on:
The Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the State Constitution on 17 November 1956 and it came into force on 26 January 1957, the day the Assembly dissolved itself.
Read the full explanation →The National Commission for Backward Classes was given constitutional status under which Article?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Second Amendment) Act, 2018 inserted Article 338B, which makes the National Commission for Backward Classes a constitutional body with the duty to investigate and monitor the safeguards provided to the socially and educationally backward classes; the same amendment added Article 342A for the central list…
Read the full explanation →Under Article 370(3), the President could declare that the article shall cease to be operative only on the recommendation of:
The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →Who was the chairman of the first Backward Classes Commission appointed in India?
The first Backward Classes Commission was appointed in 1953 under Article 340 with Kaka Saheb Kalelkar as its chairman, and it submitted its report in 1955; the report was not acted upon because its criteria for identifying backwardness were considered vague.
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