Which article, inserted by a presidential order of 1954, empowered the Jammu and Kashmir legislature to define the permanent residents of the State and give them special rights?
- A.Article 35A
- B.Article 371A
- C.Article 35B
- D.Article 370A
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Article 35A. The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954, issued by the President under Article 370(1)(d), added Article 35A at the end of Part III. It protected the State laws that defined permanent residents and reserved for them rights in immovable property, State employment, scholarships and settlement, and it shielded those laws from challenge for violating the Fundamental Rights. The presidential order of 5 August 2019 superseded the 1954 order, so Article 35A ceased to exist. Option B is wrong because Article 371A carries the special provisions for Nagaland, inserted by the Thirteenth Amendment of 1962, and is still in force. Options C and D are wrong because no Article 35B or Article 370A has ever existed in the Constitution; they are invented distractors that examiners use often.
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Practice Questions
View allArticle 370 of the Constitution of India was placed in which Part of the Constitution?
- A.Part XVIII
- B.Part XXI
- C.Part XV
- D.Part XIX
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Article 370 was one of the articles of Part XXI of the Constitution, which is titled Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions, and its marginal heading read Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →The Instrument of Accession of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was signed by Maharaja Hari Singh on:
- A.15 August 1947
- B.26 October 1947
- C.27 October 1948
- D.26 January 1950
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Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.
Read the full explanation →The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into effect on its appointed day, which was:
- A.5 August 2019
- B.9 August 2019
- C.31 October 2019
- D.26 January 2020
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The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…
Read the full explanation →Of the two Union Territories created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which one was given no legislative assembly?
- A.Jammu and Kashmir
- B.Ladakh
- C.Both of them
- D.Neither of them
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The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, framed by the State own Constituent Assembly, came into force on:
- A.17 November 1956
- B.26 January 1957
- C.14 May 1954
- D.26 January 1950
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The Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the State Constitution on 17 November 1956 and it came into force on 26 January 1957, the day the Assembly dissolved itself.
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