How many seats did the Bihar Vidhan Sabha have before the creation of Jharkhand in November 2000?
- A.294
- B.310
- C.324
- D.330
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 324. Undivided Bihar had a Legislative Assembly of 324 elected members. When the Bihar Reorganisation Act of 2000 carved out Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, eighty-one of those constituencies fell in the new state and became its Assembly, leaving Bihar with the 243 seats it has today. The arithmetic itself is worth remembering because it lets a candidate reconstruct either figure from the other.
Option A, 294, is the strength of the West Bengal Assembly and is a stray from another state. Option B, 310, and option D, 330, are round numbers placed near the right answer to catch a candidate working from a vague memory. A related fact that examiners pair with this one is that Jharkhand got no second chamber, so the Bihar Vidhan Parishad continued as the council of the smaller state, with its strength reduced to the seventy-five members it has now.
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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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