How many members does Haryana send to the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha respectively?
- A.10 and 5
- B.13 and 6
- C.14 and 7
- D.10 and 3
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, 10 and 5. Haryana has 10 parliamentary constituencies for the Lok Sabha and 5 seats in the Rajya Sabha, the latter allotted under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and filled by the elected members of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha voting by a single transferable vote.
Option B, 13 and 6, is the position of Punjab, the state from which Haryana was carved out in 1966, and it is therefore the likeliest wrong answer. Option C, 14 and 7, does not match any state in this region. Option D, 10 and 3, gets the Lok Sabha figure right but the Rajya Sabha figure wrong, which is the harder trap because a candidate who remembers only the first number will take it. A useful check is the rough relationship between the size of a state and its representation: with 90 Assembly seats and 10 Lok Sabha seats, Haryana is a medium-sized state, well behind Uttar Pradesh with 403 and 80 respectively.
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Practice Questions
View allOn which date did Haryana come into existence as a separate state?
- A.1 November 1956
- B.1 November 1966
- C.15 August 1966
- D.26 January 1967
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Haryana was created on that date under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, which divided the old state of Punjab on a linguistic basis, made Chandigarh a Union Territory to serve as the shared capital of both states, and transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →How many elected seats does the Haryana Vidhan Sabha have at present?
- A.54
- B.81
- C.90
- D.117
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The Haryana Legislative Assembly has 90 elected seats, a strength it has had since 1977, of which 17 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and none for the Scheduled Tribes, because no tribe is notified in the state.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Minister of Haryana?
- A.Rao Birender Singh
- B.Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
- C.Chaudhary Bansi Lal
- D.Chaudhary Devi Lal
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The correct answer is B, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, who took office as the first Chief Minister of Haryana when the state was formed on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Governor of Haryana?
- A.Dharma Vira
- B.B. N. Chakravarty
- C.Birendra Narayan Chakravarty
- D.Ranjit Singh Narula
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The correct answer is A, Dharma Vira, a senior member of the civil service who became the first Governor of Haryana when the state was created on 1 November 1966.
Read the full explanation →What is the maximum number of ministers, including the Chief Minister, that Haryana may have?
- A.12
- B.13
- C.15
- D.18
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Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act, 2003, says that 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.
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