Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Indian Politics-GK

R.K Shanmukham Chetty was first Minister of Finance of independent India. John Mathai took over the Railway and transport ministry. Whereas, Liaquat Ali khan was finance minister in interim government which was formed in 1946.

Rajendra Prasad was not a member of drafting committee. He was president of constituent assembly. Drafting committee whose chairman was Dr. B.R Ambedkar consisted of 7 members. Other members committee were- K.M.Munshi, Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer. N Gopalaswami Ayengar, B.L. Mitter (later replaced by Madhav Rao), Md.Saadullah, D. P. Khaitan (later replaced by T.T.Krishnamachari).

Single citizenship in India can be understood in two contexts. First, Iridian Citizens cannot acquire citizenship of another country and vice-versa. And secondly, in India there is only nation citizenship and no seperate citizenship of states unlike U.S.A.

Sovereign Parliament means Parliament is free from outside influence and it has undisputed legal authority. It is a contibution of England which has given the parliamentary form to the world.

The concept of basic structure was given by supreme Court in Keshwananda Bharti case, 1973. At that time court did not define what is basic structure. Supreme court in subsequent cases defined some of the basic structures. In S.R. Bommai case, 1994 which was related , to misuse of article 356 i.e, state emergency or President's rule, Supreme Court stated 'Secularism' and 'Federalism' as basic structures of constitution.

The members of constituent assembly were elected indirectly by the members of Provincial Assemblies in the ratio of one member per one million population by method of proportional representation through single transferable vote system.

The original constitution of India took nearly 5 years to publish and it was published in Dehradun.

The original constitution of India was not typeset or printed but written in beautiful calligraphy by Prem Behari Narain Raizada. The document is now preserved in a secial helium-filled case in library of Parliament.

The system of government accounting and auditing through post of Comptroller and Auditor General as it exists today is legacy of British Raj. The introduction of constitutional reforms in 1919 through GOI Act, 1919 brought about statutory recognition to the post of Comptroller and Auditor General.

The westminster parliamentary system is a democratic system of government modelled after that of United Kingdom system, as used in the palace of Westminster, the location of the parliament of UK.