On which date will voting be held in the bye-elections announced on 7 September 2026?

The correct answer is West Bengal. The Commission's list places Nandigram along with Rejinagar in West Bengal, both vacant because the sitting members resigned. Option A names Assam, which appears on the list but with a parliamentary constituency, Nagaon, not an Assembly seat. Option B names Tamil Nadu, which contributes two reserved Assembly seats to this round, Madurantakam and Dharapuram, both Scheduled Caste constituencies. Option C names Puducherry, a Union Territory with a legislature, which contributes the single seat of Thattanchavady. Map the six seats to their four units of the Union while revising, because a question may equally ask how many States and Union Territories are involved. The answer to that would be three States, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Assam, and one Union Territory, Puducherry.

The correct answer is four. The Commission's note recalls that Section 14 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 was amended by the Election Laws (Amendment) Act of 2021, and that the amendment provides four qualifying dates in a year on which a citizen may be enrolled as a voter. Before this change a single qualifying date governed enrolment, which is what option A describes and which is now out of date. Options B and D give numbers the law does not use. The practical effect is that a young citizen who turns eighteen need not wait a full year for the roll to open. The Commission also notes that the rolls keep getting updated until the last date of filing nominations, for applications received up to ten days before that date, so the roll is not frozen the moment the election is announced.

The correct answer is Home and States. The Vice-President recalled that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel served as the first Home Minister and as Minister for States, carrying an extraordinary responsibility at a time when the country was recovering from Partition while hundreds of princely states were being consolidated into one Union. He said Patel laid the steely foundation of a strong and unified Ek Bharat. Options A, C and D are wrong because they attach portfolios to Patel that he did not hold in this context; they are built by swapping one correct half with a plausible wrong one, a common trap. The Vice-President also placed Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Patel in one line of nation-building leading to the present pursuit of Viksit Bharat 2047.

The correct answer is the 79th edition. The Vice-President took part as chief guest at Parade Ground in Secunderabad, Telangana, where he inspected the parade, laid a wreath at the War Memorial and watched the March Past along with cultural performances. Options A, B and C are wrong because they name earlier editions of the same observance and are placed here because an edition number is exactly the kind of detail candidates carry over from a previous year's notes. The anchor fact is that the merger took place on 17 September 1948, so the edition number rises by one every year; working from that base date is safer in the examination hall than trying to recall the number itself. The Vice-President was the chief guest at this year’s parade.

The correct answer is Operation Polo. The Vice-President said that 17 September 1948 closed a decisive chapter in the history of independent India, with the erstwhile Hyderabad State becoming part of the Indian Union after the events of September 1948 and this operation. Option A is wrong because Operation Vijay is associated with a different episode of Indian military history and not with Hyderabad. Option C is wrong because Operation Meghdoot belongs to a much later period and to a wholly different theatre. Option D is wrong on the same ground, being linked to an operation abroad. Candidates should tie the operation, the date and the state together, and should also remember that the 2026 observance was the 79th edition of Hyderabad Liberation Day.