UPSC Static Quiz – 2020 : IASbaba’s Daily Static Quiz – POLITY [Day 1]

Solution (d)

Indian Councils Act of 1909

This Act is also known as Morley-Minto Reforms 

Some of the important features of this Act were as follows:

• It considerably increased the size of the legislative councils, both Central and provincial. 
• It retained official majority in the Central legislative council, but allowed the provincial legislative councils to have nonofficial majority.
• It provided for the first time, for the association of Indians with the executive councils of the Viceroy and Governors. Satyendra Prasad Sinha became the first Indian to join the Viceroy’s executive council. He was appointed as the Law Member.
• It introduced a system of communal representation for Muslims by accepting the concept of ‘separate electorate’.
• Hence Statement1,2 and 3 are correct.

Solution (d)

• The representatives to Constituent Assembly are not directly elected by people of India.

• The representatives (to Constituent Assembly) of each community were to be elected by members of that community in the provincial legislative assembly and voting was to be by the method of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.

• The representatives of the princely states were to be nominated by the heads of the princely states.

• The representatives of the princely states, who had stayed away from the Constituent Assembly, gradually joined it. On April 28, 1947, representatives of the six states were part of the Assembly. 

• The Constituent Assembly was a made a fully sovereign body by the Indian Independence Act of 1947. 

Hence Statement 1, 2 and 3 are incorrect.

Solution (b)

• The term Bharat is mentioned in Article 1. India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. Hence Statement 1 is incorrect.
• The term Union of States is mentioned in Indian Constitution instead of federation of States. Hence Statement 2 is incorrect.
• The term Territory of India is broader compared to the term Union of India.
• The territory of India shall comprise—

• • • the territories of the States;
    • the Union territories specified in the First Schedule; and]
    • such other territories as may be acquired.

• Hence Statement 3 is incorrect

Solution (c)

Article 5 of the Constitution of India: 

Citizenship at the commencement of the Constitution.—At the commencement of this Constitution, every person who has his domicile in the territory of India and—

1. who was born in the territory of India; or
2. either of whose parents was born in the territory of India; or
3. who has been ordinarily resident in the territory of India for not less than five years immediately preceding such commencement,

shall be a citizen of India.

Hence Statement 1 and Statement 2 are correct.

Solution (b)

Second schedule of the Constitution contains provisions relating to emoluments, allowances of

1. The President of India 
2. The Governors of States
3. The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
4. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
5. The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in the states
6. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council in the states 
7. The Judges of the Supreme Court
8. The Judges of the High Courts
9. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India

It does not contain anything regarding Chief Election Commissioner. Hence statement 1 is incorrect.

Third Schedule of the Constitution contains Forms of Oaths or Affirmations for:

1. 1. The Union ministers
   2. The candidates for election to the Parliament
   3. The members of Parliament
   4. The judges of the Supreme Court
   5. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India. (Hence Statement 2 is correct)
   6. The state ministers
   7. The candidates for election to the state legislature
   8. The members of the state legislature
   9. The judges of the High Courts