Indian Polity & Constitution MCQs

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Taxes can indeed be levied on Tobacco and Tobacco products under the Goods and Services Tax. Moreover, Central excise duty can also be imposed on these products by the centre. Therefore, both statement 1 and 2 are correct. Tobacco products are not excluded from GST, making statement 3 incorrect.

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Article 11 of Constitution of India deals with Parliament to regulate the right of citizenship by law. Using the power vested in Parliament by Article 11 of the Constitution of India, a comprehensive law “The Citizenship Act, 1955” was passed by the Parliament. This act has been amended from time to time to make space for provisions as and when required.

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The Vote on Account is the special provision given to the government to obtain the vote of Parliament to withdraw money when the budget for the new financial year is not released or the elections are underway, and the caretaker government is in place. Normally, it stays valid for two months but however, it can be extended if the year is an election year and it is anticipated that the main demand and the appropriation bill will take longer to be passed by the house.

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Article-3 of Indian Cons-titution addresses the topic of ‘Formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States’. It says; Parliament may by law (a) form a new State by sepa-ration of territory from any State or by uniting two or more States or parts of States or by uniting any territory to a part of any State; (b) increase the area of any State; (c) diminish the area of any State; (d) alter the boundaries of any State; (e) alter the name of any State.

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As per Article 213 of Indian Constitution, an Ordinance promulgated by the Governor of a state has to be laid before the Legislative Assembly or where there is a Legislative Council in the State, before both the Houses. It ceases to operate at the expiration of six weeks from the reassembly of the Legislature, or if before the expiration of that period a resolution disapproving it is passed by the Legislative Assembly and agreed to by the Legislative Council.

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The State Reorganisation Act was passed in 1956, which organised Indian states and territories along linguistic lines. In 1969, Madras State was renamed Tamil Nadu, meaning ‘Tamil country’. Initially, Madras State also included coastal parts of modern-day Andhra Pradesh, northern Kerala (Malabar) and Bellary and Dakshin Kannada districts of Karnataka.

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Article 76 of the Indian Constitution states that the President of India shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court to be the Attorney General of India. He is not paid is a salary but a retainer that is determined by the President of India. Although is not a member of either House of the Parliament but enjoys the right to attend and speak in the Parliamentary deliberations and meetings (of both the houses Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha), without a right to vote.

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The Rights against Exploitation is provided under Articles 23 and 24 of the Constitution of India. Article 23 prohibits the traffic in human beings and forced labor such as begar. Article 24 holds that ‘No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or, engaged in any other hazardous employment.’

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The Article 368 of the Indian Constitution requires a special majority of two-thirds of members present and voting in each house of Indian Parliament, subject to at least by a majority of the total membership of each House of Parliament, to amend the constitution. In addition, in matters affecting the states and judiciary, at least one half of all the states need to ratify the amendment.

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Federalism is a system of government in which the power is divided between a central authority and various constituent units of the country. Usually, a federation has two levels of government: a government for the entire country and governments at the level of provinces or states. Both these levels of governments enjoy their power independent of the other.