Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Indian Politics-GK

First meeting was presided over by the oldest member of assembly, Dr. Sachidanand Sinha on 9th December, 1946. He was the temporay/interim chairman. Later on, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as the permanent chairman of constituent assembly.

France is an example of Unitary and Presidential form of government whereas Britain has Unitary and Parliamentary form of government. India, U.S.A. and Canada all are federation.

Fundamental rights sub-committee was given the task to draft the fundamental rights. This committee was headed by J.B.Kripalani who was the president of Indian National Congress during the time of independence.

Ideals of Indian democracy can be seen in the Preamble which has been borrowed from U.S.A. Ideals mentioned in Preamble are justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

In constitutional government, the government functions under the provisions written in a document called constitution which sets out framework and principal functions of government. Here, the person who is leading the government may change but rules or provisions under constitution should not change.

In federal form of government there is complete division of powers between center and states. Constitution is the guiding document which confers powers to state government and central government in this set up.

In presidential form of government, head of government leads an executive branch that is separate from legislative branch. There is a fix term for both executive and legislature which stabilizes the system. This form of government ensures speedy execution of policies along with protection of freedom of people.

In presidential system of government members of executive are not members of either House of legislature. U.S.A and France follows the presidential system of government.

In UK, there is a convention that "once a speaker always a speaker". British speaker is elected at the beginning of parliament by and from among the members of House of Commons. If the speaker of outgoing Parliament is still a member of the house and is willing to be re-elected, he can do so. Usually, he is re-elected as many times as he wants. A changes pf party does not make any difference.

India adopted federal system with a strong center from Canada. Other Provisions adopted from Canada are distribution of powers between union and states, placing residuary powers with centre, and appointment of governer by center.