Who was the first Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha?
- A.Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
- B.Rao Birender Singh
- C.Dharma Vira
- D.Bansi Lal
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Rao Birender Singh. Rao Birender Singh was the first Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha when the House was constituted in 1966, and he left the chair in 1967 to become Chief Minister, the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state. Option A, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, was the first Chief Minister of Haryana and took office on 1 November 1966, the day the state came into being; a candidate who remembers only his name tends to pick him for every first of the state. Option C, Dharma Vira, was the first Governor of Haryana, an office filled by an appointee of the President and not by a member of the House, so he could not have been its Speaker. Option D, Bansi Lal, became Chief Minister in 1968 and had no part in the first Speaker's term.
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Practice Questions
View allHaryana is divided into how many revenue divisions?
- A.Four
- B.Five
- C.Six
- D.Seven
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Haryana is administered as six revenue divisions, namely Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Karnal and Faridabad, each headed by a Divisional Commissioner of the Indian Administrative Service who supervises the Deputy Commissioners of the districts under that division.
Read the full explanation →Charkhi Dadri became the twenty-second district of Haryana in which year?
- A.2005
- B.2008
- C.2012
- D.2016
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The Government of Haryana notified Charkhi Dadri, carved out of Bhiwani district, as the twenty-second district of the state on 1 December 2016, and it remains the newest district.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of which district of Haryana is at Narnaul?
- A.Rewari
- B.Mahendragarh
- C.Bhiwani
- D.Charkhi Dadri
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Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following districts does NOT belong to the Ambala division?
- A.Panchkula
- B.Kurukshetra
- C.Yamunanagar
- D.Kaithal
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Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest district of Haryana in area?
- A.Bhiwani
- B.Sirsa
- C.Hisar
- D.Fatehabad
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Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.
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