Rajasthan Quiz: Governor, Chief Minister, Legislature and High Court of Rajasthan

It provides that the Governor of a state shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, which is why a Governor is not elected and owes his office to the Union executive.

The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has two hundred seats filled by direct election from territorial constituencies, and the figure matters for a second reason: the Council of Ministers may not exceed fifteen per cent of that strength, which gives a ceiling of thirty ministers including the Chief Minister.

Parliament may by law create a Legislative Council for a state that does not have one, or abolish one that does, if the Legislative Assembly of that state first passes a resolution by a majority of its total membership and by two thirds of the members present and voting.

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath in the presence of the Chief Justice of the High Court of that state, or in his absence the senior-most judge of that court available.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Constitutional Amendment of 2003, provides that the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total strength of the Legislative Assembly, and fifteen per cent of Rajasthan's two hundred seats is thirty.

The High Court of Rajasthan has its principal seat at Jodhpur, and a bench was established at Jaipur in 1977, so the court sits in two cities; cases are distributed between them according to the districts from which they come.

As the princely states of Rajputana merged, their separate courts were replaced by a single High Court for the new state, established in 1949 with its seat at Jodhpur; its first Chief Justice was Kamala Kant Verma.

Until the States Reorganisation of 1956 the head of the state was called the Rajpramukh, and the office of Governor was created for Rajasthan from November 1956, the first holder being Sardar Gurmukh Nihal Singh.

It provides that the Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other ministers appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, that ministers hold office during the Governor's pleasure, and that the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly.

She was appointed Governor of Rajasthan in 2004, the first woman to hold that office in the state, and in 2007 she became the first woman President of India.