PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Organs of Government
Relevance of the Legislative Council in 150 words
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 Upper House, Art 169 + 171 → weak chamber: delays not blocks, no executive control → relevance rests on function, not force R2 Open from the redundancy charge → can a near-powerless second chamber still matter? → yes, but only on functional grounds
Body flow
Revising chamber, second thoughts on hasty Assembly decisions (Ambedkar) → widens representation: teachers, graduates, local authorities, nominated experts → expands political space for those shut out of other elected bodies (Yogendra Narain) → critics find this value thin
Counter-view
Weak duplication (Wheare + Austin) → a chamber of political patronage (Kothari)
Conclusion routes
R1 Relevant, but only conditionally → needs better composition, real routes. se 26 scrutiny, no refuge for defeated politicians R2 Relevance is latent, not automatic → reform turns a delaying house into a deliberative one
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
