Bihar GK Questions 2026

Under Article 198 a money bill can be introduced only in the Legislative Assembly, and when the Assembly has passed it and sent it to the Legislative Council, the Council may return it with recommendations within a period of fourteen days.

Article 173 lays down the qualifications for membership of a state legislature: the person must be a citizen of India, must take the prescribed oath, and must have completed thirty years of age for a seat in the Legislative Council and twenty-five years for a seat in the Legislative Assembly.

He headed the government of Bihar from 1946, continued as Chief Minister after the Constitution came into force, and remained in office until his death in 1961, which makes his one of the longest unbroken tenures in the early history of any state.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

She took office in 1997 and was the first woman to head the government of Bihar. The question is usually set alongside the other state firsts, so the three names that follow are worth keeping apart from hers.

Bhikhari Thakur of Kutubpur in Saran district wrote and performed plays and songs in Bhojpuri, and his Bidesia, the story of a woman left behind by a husband who migrates for work, is still staged today; the title given to him recognises that he wrote for the stage as much…

Born on 24 January 1924 at Pitaunjhia in Samastipur district, a village now named Karpoori Gram, he was called Jannayak, served as Chief Minister of Bihar and as a leader of the backward classes, and the Bharat Ratna was conferred on him in 2024, long after his death in 1988.

Born at Aurahi Hingna in Araria district, Renu published Maila Anchal in 1954, and the novel, set in a village of the Purnia region, began the anchalik or regional school of Hindi fiction.

Dinkar, born on 23 September 1908 at Simaria in Begusarai district, was given the Jnanpith Award in 1972 for Urvashi, a long poem on love and renunciation.

Bismillah Khan was born there on 21 March 1916, moved to Varanasi as a boy and turned the shehnai, until then an instrument of ceremonies, into a concert instrument.

An indigo cultivator of Champaran, he followed Gandhi from one meeting to another, including the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916, until Gandhi agreed to come and see the condition of the tenants for himself.

The zamindar of Jagdishpur in the Shahabad tract, now Bhojpur district, took command of the sepoys at Arrah when he was nearly eighty, fought the British through 1857 and died in 1858 soon after recovering his estate.

Born on 11 October 1902 at Sitabdiara on the border of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, he escaped from Hazaribagh jail during the Quit India movement, built the socialist movement after independence and in 1974 gave the call for Sampoorna Kranti, or Total Revolution, which became the centre of the agitation…

Called Bihar Kesari, he headed the provincial government from 1946 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Bihar until 1961.

Rajendra Prasad was born there on 3 December 1884, worked with Gandhi during the Champaran inquiry of 1917, presided over the Constituent Assembly from December 1946 and became the first President of India in January 1950.

Renu, born at Aurahi Hingna in the Purnia country of north east Bihar, set the novel in a village called Meriganj just after independence, and made the village itself the hero, with its castes, quarrels, politics, superstitions and hopes.