Indian Polity and Governance | The Council of Ministers

Indian Polity and Governance | The Council of Ministers

Dec 12, 2024 - 13:23 Updated: Dec 12, 2024 - 14:02
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1. Which of the following is not true?

The President or Governor is immune from legal action for officials acts
No Court can compel a Governor to perform any duty
A two month's notice in writing must be delivered to a Governor for bringing civil proceedings in respect of their personal acts
Courts are empowered to enquire the advice tendered by the Ministers to the President or Governor

2. The Prime Minister of India is the head of the

State Government
Central Government
Both State and Central Governments
None of the above

3. Prime Minister of India is

Elected
Selected
Nominated
Appointed

4. Article 78 of the Constitution of India lays down the duties of the

Speaker of Lok Sabha
Chairman of Rajya Sabha
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Prime Minister

5. Cabinet includes

Ministers with Cabinet-rank
Minister of State level
Cabinet Minister and State Minister
Cabinet Minister, Minister of State with independent charge and Minister of State

6. Who exercises the actual/executive power under the parliamentary form of Government?

Parliament
Prime Minister
President
Bureaucracy

7. If the Prime Minister of India belongs to the Upper House of Parliament

He will not be able to vote in his favour in the event of a no-confidence motion
He will not be able to speak on the budget in the Lower House
He can make statements only in the Upper House
He will have to become a member of the Lower House within six months after being sworn in as the Prime Minister

8. Which Article of the Indian Constitution describes the appointment and disqualification of the Council of Ministers?

Article 70
Article 72
Article 74
Article 75

9. Prime Minister of India is generally

Not a member of Parliament
Member of Lok Sabha
Member of Rajya Sabha
Member of both the Houses

10. Who is the President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research?

President of India
Vice-President of India
Prime Minister of India
Union Minister of Science and Technology

11. Who is the head of the National Defence Committee?

Home Minister
Prime Minister
President
Vice-President

12. The Prime Minister of India, at the time of his/her appointment

Need not necessarily be a member of one of the Houses of the Parliament but must become a member of one of the Houses within six months
Need not necessarily be a member of one of the Houses of the Parliament but must become a member of the Lok Sabha within six months
Must be a member of one of the Houses of the Parliament
Must be a member of the Lok Sabha

13. What is the minimum age requirement to become the Prime Minister of India?

21 years
25 years
30 years
35 years

14. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Was created under the original Constitution
Is an extra-Constitutional growth
Was created by 44th Amendment
Was created by the 85th Amendment

15. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a

Member of Lok Sabha from Punjab
Member of Rajya Sabha from Punjab
Member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan
Member of Rajya Sabha from Assam

16. The Prime Minister is

Elected by the Lok Sabha
Elected by the Parliament
Appointed by the President
Nominated by the Party in Majority of Lok Sabha

17. To whom is the Council of Ministers responsible?

Parliament
President
Speaker of Lok Sabha
Speaker of Lok Sabha and Chairman of Rajya Sabha

18. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to which of the following?

Prime Minister
President
Rajya Sabha
Lok Sabha

19. Union Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to

Prime Minister
President
Parliament
Only to Lok Sabha

20. Which one of the following motions, the Council of Ministers in India can move?

No-Confidence Motion
Censure Motion
Adjournment Motion
Confidence Motion

21. The Council of Ministers has to resign if a no-confidence motion is passed by a majority of members of

Lok Sabha
Rajya Sabha
Both the Houses separately
Both the Houses in Joint sitting

22. After resigning, whose permission does a minister require to give a statement in Lok Sabha?

Prime Minister
Speaker
President
Supreme Court

23. The least number of members who can table the No-Confidence Motion against the Council of Ministers in Lok Sabha is

20
30
40
50

24. Who will decide the Office of Profit?

President and Governor
Union Parliament
Supreme Court
Union Public Service Commission

25. In Indian Polity, the executive is subordinate to the

Judiciary
Legislature
Election Commission
Union Public Service Commission

26. Which leader of Madhya Pradesh became the Defence Minister first and later Home Minister in Nehru's Cabinet?

Prakash Chandra Sethi
Ravi Shankar Shukla
Kailash Nath Katju
Dwarka Nath Mishra

27. Who was the First Finance Minister of Independent India?

Gulzari Lal Nanda
R. K. Shanmukha Chetty
Krishnamachari
Sarojini Naidu

28. Who was the Law Minister in the first Cabinet of post-independence India?

K.M. Munshi
S.P. Mukherjee
Baldev Singh
B.R. Ambedkar

29. Which one of the following terms does not appear in the Constitution of India?

Annual Financial Statement
Appropriation Bill
Budget
Consolidated Fund of India

30. Who was the 12th Prime Minister of India?

Chandra Shekhar
Deve Gowda
I.K. Gujral
A.B. Vajpayee

31. Which Prime Minister died outside India?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Morarji Desai
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Charan Singh

32. Which of the following person was not a Chief Minister of any state before holding the office of Prime Minister?

Morarji Desai
P.V. Narasimha Rao
Charan Singh
Chandra Shekhar

33. Who among the following was the member of Lok Sabha during his Prime Ministership?

Deve Gowda
I.K. Gujral
Chandra Shekhar
Dr. Manmohan Singh

34. Which one of the following Prime Ministers of India, never attended the Parliament during his tenure?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
V.P. Singh
Chandra Shekhar
Chaudhari Charan Singh

35. The word 'mantrimandal' (cabinet) is mentioned only once in Constitution and that is in

Article 352
Article 74
Article 356
Article 76

36. The Policy of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation was announced as New Economic Policy by Prime Minister

Rajeev Gandhi
Vishwanath Pratap Singh
P.V. Narsimha Rao
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

37. Which one of the following Constitutional Amendments states that the total number of Ministers, including the Prime Minister in the Council of Ministers, shall not exceed fifteen percent of the total number of members of the House of the People?

90th
91st
92nd
93rd

38. Which of the following official documents is related with India?

Green paper
White paper
Yellow book
Blue book

39. Which Article of the Indian Constitution describes "The Executive power of every State shall be so exercised as not impede or prejudice the exercise of the Executive power of the Union"?

Article 257
Article 258
Article 355
Article 356

40. The Reorganization of Union Cabinet is based on the Report of

Gopalaswami Ayyangar
K.M. Munshi
T.T. Krishnamachari
B.C. Roy

41. Who gave the slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan'?

J.L. Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Chaudhari Charan Singh
Indira Gandhi