By which amendment was the voting age in India lowered from 21 years to 18 years?
- A.The 42nd Amendment Act
- B.The 52nd Amendment Act
- C.The 61st Amendment Act
- D.The 73rd Amendment Act
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, the 61st Amendment Act, passed in 1989, which changed Article 326 so that every citizen who is eighteen years of age or more may vote in elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies. The first general election held on the new franchise was that of 1989. Option A, the 42nd Amendment, is the Mini-Constitution of 1976 and had nothing to do with the voting age. Option B, the 52nd Amendment of 1985, added the anti-defection law in the Tenth Schedule. Option D, the 73rd Amendment of 1992, gave constitutional status to panchayats, added Part IX and the Eleventh Schedule and fixed a five-year term for every panchayat. Candidates should remember the pair: 61st for the age of the voter, 326 for the article it amended.
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View allWhich Constitution Amendment Act is popularly called the Mini-Constitution?
- A.The 24th Amendment Act, 1971
- B.The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976
- C.The 44th Amendment Act, 1978
- D.The 52nd Amendment Act, 1985
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It is called the Mini-Constitution because no other single amendment has changed so much of the Constitution at once.
Read the full explanation →The anti-defection law was added to the Constitution as the Tenth Schedule by which amendment?
- A.The 44th Amendment Act, 1978
- B.The 52nd Amendment Act, 1985
- C.The 61st Amendment Act, 1989
- D.The 91st Amendment Act, 2003
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It inserted the Tenth Schedule, which disqualifies a member of Parliament or of a State legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket he was elected, or who votes against the party whip.
Read the full explanation →Article 21A, which makes free and compulsory education a fundamental right, was inserted by which amendment?
- A.The 85th Amendment Act
- B.The 86th Amendment Act
- C.The 93rd Amendment Act
- D.The 101st Amendment Act
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It inserted Article 21A, which gives every child of the age of six to fourteen years the right to free and compulsory education in such manner as the State may determine by law; the law that followed was the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
Read the full explanation →The Goods and Services Tax was introduced in India by which Constitution Amendment Act?
- A.The 100th Amendment Act, 2015
- B.The 101st Amendment Act, 2016
- C.The 102nd Amendment Act, 2018
- D.The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019
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It inserted Article 246A, which gives both Parliament and the State legislatures the power to make laws on goods and services tax, Article 269A for the levy and collection of integrated GST on inter-State supply, and Article 279A, under which the President constituted the GST Council with the Union Finance…
Read the full explanation →The right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental Rights by which amendment?
- A.The 24th Amendment Act, 1971
- B.The 25th Amendment Act, 1971
- C.The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976
- D.The 44th Amendment Act, 1978
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It repealed Article 19(1)(f) and Article 31 and put the right to property in a new Article 300A in Part XII, so that no person may be deprived of his property except by authority of law.
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