Indian Polity and Constitution

• The first person to have served as both, an acting president and president of India?

Ans: V.V.Giri

• The UPSC submits its annual reports to whom?

Ans: The President

• Which article is related to 'Freedom of Press'?

Ans: Article 19(1)(a)

• Regulation enjoining withdrawal of persons from the streets or the closing of establishments or places of assembly at a stated hour?

Ans: Curfew

• An official appointed by a political party to regulate and monitor the behaviour of its members?

Ans: Whip

• Which article is referred to as ' The Jewel of the Constitution's?

Ans: Article 32

• Article 32 stands suspended during an emergency under?

Ans: Article 352

• Right to privacy is contained in which Article?

Ans: Article 21

• Which article of the Indian Constitution states that the President shall not be answerable to any court for the exercise and performance of the powers and duties of his office?

Ans: Article 361

• Which article of the constitution of India empower the President to take over the administration of a state on the basis of failure of constitutional machinery?

Ans: Article 356

• Under which article of our constitution, the Governor can reserve the bill for the consideration of the President?

Ans: Article 201

• Which article under Directive Principles of State Policy is related to prohibition of intoxicating drinks and drugs?

Ans: Article 47

• Which article of the Indian Constitution states that the Supreme Court is a Court of Record?

Ans: Article 129

• Village Panchayat is organized under which article of the Constitution of India?

Ans: Article 40

• As per which Article of the Indian Constitution, Chairman and Members of the Union Public Service Commission are appointed

Ans: Article 316

• Who is generally the ex-officio chancellor of a university in a state?

Ans: Governor

• In which year the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA) was passed by Parliament?

Ans: 1974

• Who appoints the chairman of the Finance Commission?

Ans: The President

• Who is the ex-officio chairman of the council of states?

Ans: Vice President

• The number of members in the Public Undertaking committee?

Ans: 22

• The emergency provisions of the Constitution of India have been borrowed from?

Ans: German Constitution

• The President is the nominal head of the state of India. From which country India has copied this idea?

Ans: Britain

• Rights given in the Constitution are called Fundamental Rights because?

Ans: They can be enforced and safeguarded by the courts.

• Which writ is called the bulwark of the personal freedom?

Ans: Habeus Corpus

• An interpretation of the constitution of India is based on the spirit of?

Ans: Preamble

• Which writ give the meaning 'we command' in letters?

Ans: Mandamus

• In which year the 73rd Amendment of the Constitution was passed by both houses of Parliament?

Ans: 1992

• The 73rd Amendment of the constitution came into force in?

Ans: 1993

• Who were the Vice Presidents of the Constituent Assembly?

Ans: Hareendra Coomar Mookerjee and V.T. Krushnamachari

• The total number of sessions of the Constituent Assembly of India

Ans: 11 Sessions

• How many members represented the provinces in the Constituent Assembly of India?

Ans: 229

• Which Right was remarked by Dr.B.R.Ambedkar as the "Heart and soul of the Constitution"?

Ans: Right to Constitutional remedies

• In which year the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was passed by the Parliament?

Ans: 1971

• Elections to the local government bodies are made mandatory by which amendment?

Ans: 73rd Amendment

• The word 'secularism' was added to the Preamble of the Constitution of India by which amendment?

Ans: 42nd Amendment

• Which session of the Indian National Congress adopted a resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic and Social Change?

Ans: Karachi session of 1931

• The Act which ended the diarchy in provinces and granted autonomy?

Ans: Govt. of India Act, 1935

• The date of first session of the first Lok Sabha held in?

Ans: 1952 May 13

• The number of members in the Privilege Committee of Parliament

Ans: 15 members

• Which Amendment provided for an authoritative text of the Constitution in Hindi?

Ans: 58th Amendment

• The 42nd Amendment was introduced after the recommendations of which Committee?

Ans: Swaran Singh Committee 

• The theory of "basic structure" of the Constitution was propounded by the Supreme Court in?

Ans: Keshavendra Bharati case

• Who is the Chairperson of the Goods and Service Tax Council?

Ans: Union Finance Minister

• 80th Amendment of the Indian Constitution provides for?

Ans: Alternative scheme for sharing taxes between the Union and the States.

• Who has called the Indian Federalism as 'Co-operative Federalism'?

Ans: Granville Austin

• Which enshrines the principles of a welfare state in India?

Ans: Directive Principles of State Policy

• Where is the code of conduct of political parties given?

Ans: Representation of Peoples Act,1951

• In which year National Green Tribunal Act was passed?

Ans: 2010

• Which state has the largest number of Rajya Sabha seats?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

• In which year the National Policy for the empowerment of woman was issued?

Ans: 2001

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