Practice Quiz set 9 - indian polity mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

The Constitution provides that the maximum strength of the House by 552 members.

Up to 525 members represent the territorial constituencies in the States, up to 20 members represent the Union Territories and no more than two members from the Anglo-Indian community can be nominated by the President of India if he or she feels that the community is not adequately represented.

House seats are apportioned among the states by population in such a manner that the ratio between that number and the population of the State is, so far as practicable, the same for all States.

97 subjects are defined and enlisted under the List- I of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India, which form the exclusive domain of the Central Government of the Union of India excluding all the states and the union territories.

Up to 525 members represent of the territorial constituencies in States, up to 20 members represent the Union Territories and no more than two members from Anglo-Indian community can be nominated by the President of India if he or she feels that the community is not adequately represented.

The Constitution of India borrowed the following features from the Irish Constitution: concept of Directive Principles of States Policy (Ireland borrowed it from Spain); method of election of President; and the nomination of members in the Rajya Sabha by the President.

Chairman of Lok sabha is designated as speaker.

Article 370 of the Indian constitution grants special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir.

As per Article 370 of the Constitution of India, notwithstanding anything in this Constitution:

1. the power of Parliament to make laws for the said State shall be limited to those matters in the Union List and the Concurrent List which, in consultation with the Government of the State, are declared by the President to correspond to matters specified in the Instrument of Accession governing the accession of the State to the Dominion of India as the matters with respect to which the Dominion Legislature may make laws for that State; and
2. such other matters in the said Lists, as, with the concurrence of the Government of the State, the President may by order specify. This article specifies that except for Defence, Foreign Affairs, Finance and Communications, (matters specified in the instrument of accession) the Indian Parliament needs the State Government’s concurrence for applying all other laws.

Thus the state’s residents lived under a separate set of laws, including those related to citizenship, ownership of property, and fundamental rights, as compared to other Indians.

J.L Nehru was in PM’s office for the 4th term represented ‘Phulpur’ near Allahabad as a member of Parliament.

Morarji Desai of the Janta party was the first non-congress PM of India assumed office on March 24, 1977.

The President of India can proclaim the failure of the constitutional machinery in Jammu and Kashmir but the Proclamation should be grounded under the provision of the state constitution and not Indian constitution.