Politics MCQ Questions with Answer

Explanation: The Government of India Act 1935, the voluminous and final constitutional effort at governing British India, articulated three major goals: establishing a loose federal structure, achieving provincial autonomy, and safeguarding minority interests through separate electorates. The federal provisions, intended to unite princely states and British India at the centre, were not implemented because of ambiguities in safeguarding the existing privileges of princes. In February 1937, however, provincial autonomy became a reality when elections were held.

Explanation: B.R. Ambedkar was the Chairman of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly

Explanation: ​The tenure of the Chief Election Commissioner of India is six years or till the age of 65 year whichever is earlier.

Explanation: The amendment in the Directive Principle of state policy needs for a special majority of the Parliament where the amendment in the election of the President and its manner needs for a special majority of the parliament.

Explanation: The state of Jammu and Kashmir can nominate two women members to the Legislative Assembly. The two women may be nominated as members by the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir if he or she is of the opinion that women are not adequately represented.

Explanation: 61th amendment, 1989 on amending article 326 reduced the age for voting rights from 21 to 18.

Explanation: ​Janata Dal provided two Prime Ministers in two years. ​​H.D. Deve Gowda – 1996 to 1997 (11th Prime Minister) ​​I. K. Gujral – 1997 to 1998 (12th Prime minister).

Explanation: ​BSP was founded in 1983 by Kanshi Ram. Due to his deteriorating health in the 1990s, former school teacher Mayawati became the party’s leader.

Explanation: The slogan “Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava” was coined by Mahatma Gandhi in pursuit of his dream of Hindu Muslim unity. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was the President of the Republic of India who consistently described Indian Secularism as ‘Sarva Dharma Samabhav’.

Explanation: The permanent President of the Constituent Assembly was Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

Explanation: The Constitution was enacted/adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, and came into effect on 26 January 1950. The date 26 January was chosen to commemorate the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence of 1930. With its adoption, the Union of India officially became the modern and contemporary Republic of India and it replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the country’s fundamental governing document.

Explanation: Article 40, of the Indian Constitution, provides for the institution of Panchayati Raj. The State shall take steps to organize village panchayats and endow them with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as units of self-government. ​​

Article39 – Certain principles of policy to be followed by the state. ​​

Article 36 – Definition of DPSP. ​​

Article 48 – Organisation of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Explanation: ​The Chief Election Commissioner holds office for a term of six years or until they attain the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.

Explanation: The word minority is not defined in the constitution of India, yet it recognizes two types of minorities, based on religion and language. The minority commission is a statutory body constituted in 1993 by an act of Parliament.

Explanation:  Indian Penal Code is the main criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code, intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. It was drafted in 1860 and came into force in colonial India during the British Raj in 1862. It has since been amended several times and is now supplemented by other criminal provisions.

Explanation: ​“Political parties give political education to the people” is not the function of political parties in a democracy.

Explanation: Ashok Mehta Committee recommendations put greater emphasis on the Zila Parishad. This committee recommended that a district should be the first point for decentralization under popular supervision below the state level.

Explanation: Election of the President representation of the states in Parliament and any of the Lists in the 7th schedule require rectification of the Legislature of not less than one-half of the states for a constitution amendment.

Explanation: Written in highly Sanskritised (Tatsama) Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It was first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911.

Explanation: The English word “caste” derives from the Spanish and Portuguese casta, which the Oxford English Dictionary quotes John Minsheu’s Spanish dictionary (1599) to mean, “race, lineage, or breed.” When the Spanish colonized the New World, they used the word to mean a “clan or lineage.” However, it was the Portuguese who employed casta in the primary modern sense when they applied it to the many marrying hereditary Hindu social groups they encountered upon their arrival in India in 1498. The use of the spelling “caste,” with this latter meaning, is first attested to in English in 1613.

Explanation: ​The commission can inquire suo moto or on a petition presented to it by the victim or any person on his behalf or on a direction into the complaint of a violation of human rights.

Explanation: ​In proportional representation, a candidate requires 50% + 1 vote to get elected. In a bi-party system, one automatically secures it. Proportional representation (PR) is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received

Explanation: The Indian Constitution is the world’s longest Constitution. At the time of commencement, the Constitution had 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules. It consists of almost 80,000 words and took 2 years 11 months and 18 days to make.

Explanation: Dr. B R Ambedkar, the chairman of the Drafting Committee, called the fundamental right to constitutional remedies the heart and soul of the Indian constitution. The right to constitutional remedies empowers the citizens to move to a court of law in case of any denial of the fundamental rights. The courts can issue various kinds of writs. These writs are habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, and certiorari.

Explanation: Article 243 gives constitutional status to the Panchayats.

Explanation: ​A political party is entitled to be recognized as a state party only if it secures at least 6% of the valid votes polled in the State at a general election either to the Lok Sabha or to the Legislative Assembly of the State concerned and in addition wins at least 2 seats in the State Legislative Assembly of the concerned state.

Explanation: Part I of the Constitution of India describes the nation that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. It also mentions that the states and the territories shall be specified in the First Schedule.

Explanation: Art 253- Parliament has power to make any law for the whole or any part of the country or territory of India for implementing any treaty, agreement, or convention with any other country or any decision made at any international conference, association or other body without the consent of any state.

Explanation: The power to decide the date of an election in a state legislative assembly rests with the election commission of India.

Explanation: ​Himachal Pradesh passed legislation (1996) making the maintenance of one’s parents mandatory.

Explanation: Election Commissioner/s can be removed by the President of India on the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner

Explanation: Cabinet system and its collective responsibility is a constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that members of the Cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them. This support includes voting for the government in the legislature. In the United Kingdom, the doctrine applies to all members of the government, from members of the cabinet down to Parliamentary Private Secretaries.

Explanation: The All India Trinamool Congress is an Indian political party based in West Bengal. It was founded on 1st January 1998 and has been recognized as National Party in 2016.

Explanation: CAG of India was created by the constitution of India. (Article 148-151)

Explanation: The superintendence, direction, and control of the preparation of electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to the Panchayats shall be vested in a State Election Commission consisting of a State Election Commissioner to be appointed by the Governor.

Explanation: The state has four essential elements. These are:

(1) Population,

(2) Territory (land),

(3) Government,

(4) Sovereignty (or independence).

The first two elements constitute the physical or material basis of the state while the last two form its political and spiritual basis. In modern times relations among nations have grown and many international organizations and institutions have come into being. Therefore some scholars have argued that international recognition is an essential element of the state.

Explanation: ​The first meeting of the constituent assembly was held on 9 Dec 1946.

Explanation: The deposit made by a candidate shall be returned if the following conditions are satisfied:- ​

(i)​ The candidate is not shown in the list of contesting candidates, that is to say, either his nomination was rejected or after his nomination was accepted, he withdrew his candidature; or ​

(ii) ​He dies before the commencement of the poll; or ​

(iii)​ He is elected; or ​

(iv)​ He is not elected but gets more than 1/6th of the total number of valid votes polled by all the candidates at the election.

Explanation: Members of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council of a State shall be entitled to receive such salaries and allowances, as may from time to time be determined, by the Legislature of the State by law and, until provision in that respect, is so made, salaries and allowances at such rates and upon such conditions as were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution applicable in the case of members of the Legislative Assembly of the corresponding province. The salary is paid from the state consolidated fund.

Explanation:  B. R. Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Granville Austin has described the Indian Constitution drafted by Ambedkar as ‘first and foremost a social document’. … ‘The majority of India’s constitutional provisions are either directly arrived at furthering the aim of social revolution or attempt to foster this revolution by establishing conditions necessary for its achievement.”

Explanation: An amendment of the constitution can be initiated only by the introduction of a bill for the purpose in either House of Parliament and not in the state legislatures.

Explanation: The Planning Commission was established in March 1950 by an executive resolution of the Government of India, on the recommendation of the Advisory Planning Board constituted in 1946, under the chairmanship of KC Neogi. Thus, the Planning Commission is neither constitutional nor a statutory body. The planning commission has been replaced by a new institution namely NITI Aayog.

Explanation: The provincial part of the Government of India Act, 1935 basically followed the recommendations of the Simon Commission. Simon Commission had proposed an almost fully responsible government in the provinces. Under the 1935 Act, provincial dyarchy was abolished; i.e. all provincial portfolios were to be placed in charge of ministers enjoying the support of the provincial legislatures.

Explanation: ​A. K. Aiyer was a member of the constituent assembly of India from Madras state.

Explanation: CAG of India holds office for 6 years or 65 years of age, whichever earlier.

Explanation: The Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes ​​To, further strengthen the constitutional provision in Article 15 and Article 17, the parliament of India enacted the Untouchability (Offenses) Act in 1955. This act was further amended and renamed in 1976 as the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955.

Explanation: ​President’s rule refers to Article 356 of the Constitution of India deals with the failure of the constitutional machinery of an Indian state. In the event that the government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution, the state comes under the direct control of the central government, with executive authority exercised through the Governor instead of a Council of Ministers headed by an elected Chief Minister accountable to the state legislature. Article 356 is invoked if there has been a failure of the constitutional machinery in any state of India.

Explanation: ​The constitutional 73rd &74th Amendment Acts 1992 received the assent of the President of India on 20th April 1993 and came into force on 24th April and on 1st June 1993 respectively.

Explanation: ​Communist Party of India (CPI) has advocated coming together all left parties.

Explanation: Electoral reforms are changing in electoral systems to improve how public desires are expressed in election results, Installation of electronic voting machines is not part of such reforms.