Haryana GK Questions 2026

Article 219 says that every person appointed to be a judge of a High Court shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the Governor of the state, or some person appointed by him, in the form set out in the Third Schedule.

Article 217 provides that a judge of a High Court shall hold office until he attains the age of sixty-two years, a limit raised from sixty by the 15th Amendment Act, 1963.

Article 231 says that Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more states, or for two or more states and a Union Territory, and it is the article under which the Punjab and Haryana High Court serves Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

The High Court of Judicature at Lahore went to Pakistan with the partition, and a new High Court for East Punjab was set up at Shimla on 15 August 1947; its first Chief Justice was Sir Eric Weston, and the court functioned from Shimla until the new capital at Chandigarh…

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 carved Haryana out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh and made Chandigarh a Union Territory; from that day the High Court of Punjab became the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a common High Court for the two states…

The common High Court of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh sits at Chandigarh, where the court moved in 1955, and it has no permanent Bench anywhere else, so a writ petition from any district of Haryana is filed there.

The phrase came from the defections of 1967 in the newly formed state, when Gaya Lal, a member of the Legislative Assembly, changed his party three times within a fortnight, and the comment made on the occasion gave the language a lasting expression for floor-crossing.

Article 164(4) provides that a minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the legislature of the state shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a minister.

Haryana has 10 parliamentary constituencies for the Lok Sabha and 5 seats in the Rajya Sabha, the latter allotted under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and filled by the elected members of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha voting by a single transferable vote.

It allows the Governor to promulgate an ordinance when the Legislative Assembly of the state is not in session and he is satisfied that circumstances exist which make immediate action necessary.

Article 157 lays down only two qualifications for the office of Governor: the person must be a citizen of India and must have completed the age of thirty-five years.

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

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act, 2003, says that 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.

The correct answer is A, Dharma Vira, a senior member of the civil service who became the first Governor of Haryana when the state was created on 1 November 1966.

The correct answer is B, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, who took office as the first Chief Minister of Haryana when the state was formed on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966.

The Haryana Legislative Assembly has 90 elected seats, a strength it has had since 1977, of which 17 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and none for the Scheduled Tribes, because no tribe is notified in the state.

Haryana was created on that date under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, which divided the old state of Punjab on a linguistic basis, made Chandigarh a Union Territory to serve as the shared capital of both states, and transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh.

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.…