SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: under Article 168 the legislature of the state consists of the Governor and a single House, the Vidhan Sabha.

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence before the senior-most judge of that court available.

He became Chief Minister when the reorganised state of Madhya Pradesh came into being on 1 November 1956, having already headed the government of the earlier Central Provinces and Berar, and he died in office in December 1956, only weeks into the new state.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2000 created Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, and ninety of the 320 constituencies of the undivided Madhya Pradesh Assembly fell within the new state and became its Legislative Assembly.

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 its Legislative Assembly, and shall not be fewer than twelve.

The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly returns 230 members from single-member territorial constituencies, of which thirty-five are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and forty-seven for the Scheduled Tribes.

She won the gold at the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi in 2010, the first Indian woman wrestler to do so, and she was also the first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympic Games, at London in 2012.

It is the highest sporting honour conferred by the Government of Haryana on outstanding sportspersons of the state, and it sits alongside the cash awards and the reservation of government posts that make up the sports policy of Haryana.

She belongs to Haryana and won a silver medal in the shot put at the Rio Paralympics of 2016, becoming the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Paralympic Games; she went on to become president of the Paralympic Committee of India and has received the Padma Shri.…

Sumit Antil of Khewra village in Sonipat district competes in the javelin throw in the F64 class, won the gold at the Tokyo Paralympics and defended it at Paris, breaking the world record in the class along the way.

She comes from Goria village in Jhajjar district and won two bronze medals at the Paris Olympics, one in the individual ten metre air pistol and one in the ten metre air pistol mixed team event, which made her the first Indian athlete since independence to win two medals at…

Known as the Haryana Hurricane, he played his domestic cricket for Haryana, led India to the World Cup in 1983 and captained the state side to its Ranji Trophy title in the season of 1990 and 1991, which remains the great achievement of Haryana cricket.

Shahabad Markanda, a small town in Kurukshetra district, is called the nursery of Indian women hockey; Rani Rampal, who captained the national team and has received both the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and the Padma Shri, learnt the game on its astroturf, and the former men team captain and…

He comes from Nahri village in Sonipat district and won the silver medal in the 57 kg freestyle class at the Tokyo Olympics, losing only the final; his silver was the better of the two wrestling medals India won at those Games.

Sakshi Malik, from Mokhra village in Rohtak district, won the bronze medal in the 58 kg freestyle event at the Rio Olympics and became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal; hers was also the first medal India won at those Games.

The town is called the little Cuba or mini Cuba of India because of the Bhiwani Boxing Club, where a stream of boxers trained under the coach Jagdish Singh and from which several reached the Beijing Olympics of 2008, including the bronze medallist Vijender Singh.

He won a bronze medal in the 75 kg middleweight class at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the first Olympic medal won by an Indian boxer, and he came from the Bhiwani Boxing Club in Bhiwani district.

Neeraj Chopra comes from Khandra village in Panipat district and won the gold medal in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics, the first Olympic gold for India in a track and field event; he later added an Olympic silver at Paris and a world championship title in the same…

She was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar in 1997 and is the only woman so far to have held that office in the state; she later served several terms and also led the Opposition in the state legislature.

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.