Polity (The Parliament) MCQ Part – 01

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Subject — Indian Polity
Topic — The Parliament
Total Question in This Set — 40

Polity (The Parliament) MCQ Part – 01

1. Which of the following are correct about the Rajya Sabha?
1. It is not a subject to dissolution.
2. It has a term of five years.
3. One-third of its members retire after every two years.
4. Its member shall not be less than 25 years of age.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(A) 1, 2 and 3
(B) 2, 3 and 4
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 2 and 4

2. Formation of Parliament is completed by
(A) Only House of the People
(B) House of the People and Prime Minister
(C) House of the People, Council of States and Prime Minister
(D) House of the People, Council of States and President

3. Maximum how many times the Parliament has to meet in a year?
(A) Once
(B) Twice
(C) Thrice
(D) Four times

4. Indian Parliament consists of
(A) Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
(B) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Prime Minister
(C) Speaker and Lok Sabha
(D) President and both the House of Parliament

5. Which of the following constitute the Indian Parliament?
(A) President, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
(B) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Prime Minister
(C) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
(D) Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Parliament Secretariat

6. What should be the interval between the two consecutive sessions of Parliament?
(A) Four months
(B) Six months
(C) 1 year
(D) Fixed by the President

7. The membership of a Parliament/ Legislative Assembly’s membership may be terminated if he remains absent without informing to respective House for a term of
(A) 60 days
(B) 90 days
(C) 120 days
(D) 150 days

8. Who/which of the following is not an integral part of Parliament?
(A) President
(B) Vice-President
(C) Lok Sabha
(D) Rajya Sabha

9. Which one of the following provisions deals with the privileges and immunities of the Members of Parliament under the Constitution of India?
(A) Article 104
(B) Article 105
(C) Article 82
(D) Article 117

10. For the first time, a MP/MLA was disqualified from the membership on the ground of remaining absent from sixty consecutive meetings of the House without the permission. He was a member of
(A) Council of States
(B) House of People
(C) Punjab Legislative Assembly
(D) Rajasthan Legislative Assembly

11. Privilege motion can be raised against a Minister when he
(A) Loses confidence in the Government
(B) Absents himself for a long time
(C) Withholds facts of a case or given distorted versions of facts
(D) Limit value

12. Which one of the following is not a collective privilege of the members of Parliament?
(A) Freedom of debates and proceedings
(B) The Rights to regulate the internal matters of the Parliament
(C) Freedom from attendance as Witness
(D) The privilegeds of excluding strangers from the house

13. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(A) Only the Rajya Sabha and not the Lok Sabha can have nominated members
(B) There is a Constitutional provision for nominating two members belonging to the Anglo-Indian community to the Rajya Sabha
(C) There is no Constitutional bar for nominated members to be appointed as a Union Minister
(D) A nominated member can vote both in the Presidential and Vice-Presidential elections

14. Who among the following has the right to vote in the elections to both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha?
(A) Elected members of the Lower House of the Parliament
(B) Elected members of the Upper House of the Parliament
(C) Elected members of the Upper House of the state Legislature
(D) Elected members of the Lower House of the state Legislature

15. The Parliament can make law for the whole or any part of India for implementing International Treaties.
(A) With the consent of all the States
(B) With the consent of majority of States
(C) With the consent of the States concerned
(D) Without the consent of any State

16. Parliament may legislate on any subject of State List when
(A) There is assent of President
(B) Resolution thereof has been passed by State
(C) In any situation
(D) General permission of State Legislative Assembly has ben received

17. Which one of the following statement is correct?
(A) All the members of Council of States are elected by State Legislative Assemblies
(B) As the Vice-President is the exofficio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, only a member of the Rajya Sabha can contest for the office of the Vice-President
(C) A point difference between the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha is that while a candidate to Lok Sabha can contest from any State in India, a candidate to the Rajya Sabha should ordinarily be a resident of the State from where he is contesting
(D) The Constitution of India explicitly prohibits the appointment of a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha to the post of minister

18. Who can legislate on the subjects which are not included in any of the lists of subjects given in the Constitution?
(A) Supreme Court
(B) Parliament
(C) State Legislature
(D) Regional Councils

19. The Speaker can ask a member of the House to stop speaking and let another member speak. This phenomenon is known as
(A) Decorum
(B) Crossing the floor
(C) Interpellation
(D) Yielding the floor

20. Which of the following procedures will enable the adoption of a Money Bill that was once passed by the Lok Sabha but was amended by the Rajya Sabha?
(A) It will go to the President
(B) The Lok Sabha will have pass it with 2/3^rd majority of the members sitting and voting
(C) A Joint session of the two Houses will be called
(D) It will be deemed to have been passed if the Lok Sabha passes it again either by accepting or rejecting the amendments