Polity (The Council of Ministers) MCQ Part – 02

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Subject — Indian Polity
Topic — The Council of Ministers
Total Question in This Set — 37

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Polity (The Council of Ministers) MCQ Part – 02

31. After resigning, whose permission does a minister require to give a statement in Lok Sabha?
(A) Prime Minister
(B) Speaker
(C) President
(D) Supreme Court
(E) None of the above

32. In Indian Polity, the executive is subordinate to the
(A) Judiciary
(B) Legislature
(C) Election Commission
(D) Union Public Service Commission

33. Who will decide the Office of Profit?
(A) President and Governor
(B) Union Parliament
(C) Supreme Court
(D) Union Public Service Commission

34. Who was the First Finance Minister of Independent India?
(A) Gulzari Lal Nanda
(B) R. K. Shanmukha Chetty
(C) Krishnamachari
(D) Sarojini Naidu

35. Which leader of Madhya Pradesh became the Defence Minister first and later Home Minister in Nehru’s Cabinet?
(A) Prakash Chandra Sethi
(B) Ravi Shankar Shukla
(C) Kailash Nath Katju
(D) Dwarka Nath Mishra

36. Which one of the following terms does not appear in the Constitution of India?
(A) Annual Financial Statement
(B) Appropriation Bill
(C) Budget
(D) Consolidated Fund of India

37. Who was the Law Minister in the first Cabinet of post-independence India?
(A) K.M. Munshi
(B) S.P. Mukherjee
(C) Baldev Singh
(D) B.R. Ambedkar

38. Which Prime Minister died outside India?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Morarji Desai
(C) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(D) Charan Singh

39. Who was the 12th Prime Minister of India?
(A) Chandra Shekhar
(B) Deve Gowda
(C) I.K. Gujral
(D) A.B. Vajpayee

40. Who among the following was the member of Lok Sabha during his Prime Ministership?
(A) Deve Gowda
(B) I.K. Gujral
(C) Chandra Shekhar
(D) Dr. Manmohan Singh

41. Which of the following person was not a Chief Minister of any state before holding the office of Prime Minister?
(A) Morarji Desai
(B) P.V. Narasimha Rao
(C) Charan Singh
(D) Chandra Shekhar

42. The word ‘mantrimandal’ (cabinet) is mentioned only once in Constitution and that is in
(A) Article 352
(B) Article 74
(C) Article 356
(D) Article 76

43. Which one of the following Prime Ministers of India, never attended the Parliament during his tenure?
(A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(B) V.P. Singh
(C) Chandra Shekhar
(D) Chaudhari Charan Singh

44. Which of the following statements is not true for Dr. Manmohan Singh?
(A) Former Finance Minister of India
(B) Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India
(C) Former Chairman of Finance Commission
(D) Former Representative of India at the IMF

45. The Policy of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation was announced as New Economic Policy by Prime Minister
(A) Rajeev Gandhi
(B) Vishwanath Pratap Singh
(C) P.V. Narsimha Rao
(D) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

46. Which of the following official documents is related with India?
(A) Green paper
(B) White paper
(C) Yellow book
(D) Blue book

47. Which one of the following Constitutional Amendments states that the total number of Ministers, including the Prime Minister in the Council of Ministers, shall not exceed fifteen percent of the total number of members of the House of the People?
(A) 90th
(B) 91st
(C) 92nd
(D) 93rd

48. The Reorganization of Union Cabinet is based on the Report of
(A) Gopalaswami Ayyangar
(B) K.M. Munshi
(C) T.T. Krishnamachari
(D) B.C. Roy

49. Which Article of the Indian Constitution describes “The Executive power of every State shall be so exercised as not impede or prejudice the exercise of the Executive power of the Union”?
(A) Article 257
(B) Article 258
(C) Article 355
(D) Article 356

50. Who gave the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’?
(A) J.L. Nehru
(B) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(C) Chaudhari Charan Singh
(D) Indira Gandhi