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How is your preparation going for UPSC IAS Prelims Examination 2016? Hope you are preparing on the right track. Now these are the solution set of Monday Polity Quiz #12. Cross check your answer with our answer key and explanations. And write down your correct and incorrect in comment section. This will help you to compare your performance with others.
[Solutions]
Q1.Consider the following statements regarding Directive Principles:
1. The directive principles are meant to establish Political Democracy
2. The directive principles are meant to establish Social Democracy
3. The directive principles are meant to establish Economic Democracy
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 1 & 3 only
c) 1, 2 & 3.
d) 2 & 3 only
Ans- [D]. DPSP are meant to promote social and economic democracy whereas, the fundamental rights promote the political democracy in the country.
Q2. Consider the following statements regarding President’s rule in the State.
1. Parliament passes the budget of the state during that period.
2. President can promulgate ordinance for the governance of the state during that period.
3. The state legislature is either suspended or dissolved.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 1 and 3 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans – [D]. All the statements are true.
Q3. When the offices of both Speaker and Deputy Speaker falls vacant:
a) The members of Lok Sabha immediately elect a Speaker.
b) The senior most willing member of Lok Sabha becomes the speaker.
c) The President appoints any member of Lok Sabha as speaker.
d) The Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha presides over till the next speaker is elected.
Ans – [C]. In case of vacancy in the office of the speaker and the deputy speaker of Lok Sabha, president appoints any member of the lok sabha as speaker. However, in case the speaker and deputy speaker are absent a member from the panel of chairperson is appointed as the speaker.
Q4. Consider the following statements regarding the Vice-President of India.
1. The Vice-President is elected by an electoral college consisting of all the members of the both houses of Parliament.
2. The constitution is silent about the situation when the seat of Vice President falls vacant.
3. The Vice President of India enjoys powers analogous to the Vice President of USA.
Select the correct statement using the codes given below.
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans – [B]. Vice President of USA has more powers as compared to the Indian Vice President.
Q5. The office of the ‘Whip’ is mentioned in:
a) Constitution of India.
b) Rules of the house.
c) In a separate Parliamentary Statute.
d) None of these
Ans – [D]. The office of the whip is nowhere mentioned.
Q6. Consider the following statements regarding the President’s address to the parliament.
1. It corresponds to the speech from the Throne in Britain.
2. It can be done only at the start of every Fiscal Year.
3. Defeat of Motion of Thanks doesn’t amount to defeat of the government.
Select the incorrect statement/s using the codes given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 3 only
Ans – [B]. President’s address to the parliament can be done at the commencement of the first session after each general election to the House of the People and at the commencement of the first session of each year.
Defeat of motion of thanks amounts to the defeat of government
Q7. Consider the following statements:
1. In India, only the President, but not the governors of the States, has the power to pardon, commute or suspend the sentence of any person convicted of any offence.
2. In India, though the Governor of a State is its constitutional head during normal times, he acts as the agent of the Centre during periods of Emergency in the State.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2
c) 2 only
d) None of these
Ans – [C].
Under Article 161 of the Constitution, the governor of a state also possesses the pardoning power. Hence, the governor can also grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions of punishment or suspend, remit and commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence against a state law.
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