For how long can the Bihar Vidhan Parishad withhold a money bill passed by the Vidhan Sabha?
- A.14 days
- B.One month
- C.Three months
- D.Six months
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, 14 days. Under Article 198 a money bill can be introduced only in the Legislative Assembly, and when the Assembly has passed it and sent it to the Legislative Council, the Council may return it with recommendations within a period of fourteen days. The Assembly may accept or reject those recommendations, and if the Council does not return the bill within fourteen days it is deemed to have been passed by both Houses in the form in which the Assembly passed it.
Option C, three months, and option B, one month, belong to the next article: under Article 197 an ordinary bill may be held up by the Council for three months at the first stage and for one further month when the Assembly sends it a second time, four months in all, after which the will of the Assembly prevails. Option D, six months, is the maximum gap allowed between two sessions of a House under Article 174 and has nothing to do with bills. Note also that a state legislature has no joint sitting; that device belongs to Parliament under Article 108.
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Practice Questions
View allHow many members are elected to the Bihar Vidhan Sabha?
- A.234
- B.240
- C.243
- D.324
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The Bihar Legislative Assembly returns 243 members from single-member territorial constituencies by universal adult suffrage, and every calculation about the state, from the majority mark to the ceiling on the Council of Ministers, is worked out from that figure.
Read the full explanation →What is the maximum number of ministers, including the Chief Minister, that the Bihar Council of Ministers can have?
- A.30
- B.34
- C.36
- D.44
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Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act of 2003, says the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly, subject to a floor of twelve.
Read the full explanation →How many members does the Bihar Vidhan Parishad have?
- A.60
- B.75
- C.81
- D.96
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The Bihar Legislative Council, the second chamber of the state legislature, has seventy-five members. Article 171 allows a Legislative Council a strength of not more than one-third of the Assembly of the state and not fewer than forty, and seventy-five sits comfortably inside that band for an Assembly of 243.
Read the full explanation →Who administers the oath of office to the Governor of Bihar?
- A.The President of India
- B.The Chief Minister of Bihar
- C.The Chief Justice of the Patna High Court
- D.The Chief Justice of India
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Article 159 says that before entering upon his office the Governor shall make and subscribe an oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to that state, or in his absence before the senior-most judge of that court available.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution provides for a Council of Ministers to aid and advise the Governor of a state?
- A.Article 161
- B.Article 163
- C.Article 164
- D.Article 167
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It provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions, except in so far as he is required to exercise them in his discretion, and it adds that the question whether…
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