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Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Indian Politics-GK

Learn and practice General Knowledge questions and answers on Indian Politics with very easy and understandable explanations. GK questions are very helpful different type of competitive exams. Page-2 section-1

Each section contains 100 MCQs on Indian Politics .
11
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India can be removed from office in like manner and on like grounds as :  
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India can be removed from office in like manner and on like grounds as Supreme Court Judge .

12
A procedure whereby a proposed legislation is referred to the electorates for settlement by their direct votes is called :  
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:

Referendum: A public vote with possibly legally binding consequences.

Repatriation: The sending back of someone to his country of origin such as an illegal immigrant or prisoner of war.

Representative democracy: In modern times what is commonly know as a democracy, even though the people do not directly vote on actual issues and laws but surrender that right to their duly elected representatives.

Republic: Defined by some sources as simply a democracy, but otherwise loosely described as a form of government where, in word or deed, rule is constrained by institutional frameworks and is not by the selected few. Not an oligarchy but not necessarily a democracy. The Roman Republic was the original precedent for republicanism. Apartheid South Africa, by this definition, was a republic.

13
By which Constitutional Amendment Act was the elementary education made a fundamental right under Article 21-A?
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:

The 86th Constitutional  Amendment Act 2002: Provides Right to Education until the age of fourteen and Early childhood care until the age of six.

The 81th Constitutional Amendment Act 2000: Protect SC / ST reservation in filling backlog of vacancies.

The 88th Constitutional Amendment Act 2004: To extend statutory cover for levy and utilization of Service Tax.

The 96th Constitutional Amendment Act 2011: Substituted "Odia" for "Oriya".

14
Under the Chapter Fundamental Rights, rights under Article 15, 16, 19, 29 and 30 have been denies the same to :  
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Under the Chapter Fundamental Rights, rights under Article 15, 16, 19, 29 and 30 have been denies the same to the Aliens.
15
Which Article of the Constitution provides freedom to manage religious affairs ?
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:

Right to Freedom of Religion:

Article 25: Particulars of freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion are clearly enumerated.

Article 26: The Article specifies the freedom to manage religious affairs.

Article 27: Freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion is stated in the Article.

Article 28: This Article includes freedom as to attendance at religious instruction or religious worship in certain education institutions

16
Sikkim was made the full fledged state of Union of India by :
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:

The 35th constitutional Amendment Act (1975): Terms and Conditions for the Incorporation of Sikkim into the Union of India.

The 37th constitutional Amendment Act (1975): Formation of Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly.

The 38th constitutional Amendment Act (1975): Enhances the powers of President and Governors to pass ordinances.

The 36th constitutional Amendment Act (1975): Formation of Sikkim as a State within the Indian Union.

17
Fazl Ali Commission appointed in December 1953 to consider the question of state reorganization accepted :  
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:
Fazl Ali Commission appointed in December 1953 to consider the question of state reorganization accepted language as the basis of reorganization of states.
18
The states of Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya were formed in :
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:
The states of Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya were formed in the year 1972. In 1972, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura were granted full statehood via the North East Reorganization Act 1972 and the Mizo Hills region of Assam and NEFA were converted into a Union Territory.
19
When was the second Backward Class Commission under the Chairmanship of B.P. Mandal appointed ?
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:
The second Backward Class Commission under the Chairmanship of B.P. Mandal was appointed in the year 1979. It was established in India on 1 January 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward classes" of India.
20
When was reservation of 27% government jobs for other Backward Classes declared for the first time in Independent India?
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option A
Solution:
On 7 August 1990, the National Front government declared that it would provide 27 per cent reservations to "socially and educationally backward classes" for jobs in central services and public undertaking. It was declared for the first time in Independent India.