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21.

Under Article 75 (5) a person who is not a member of any house of Parliament can be appointed as a Minister subject to his becoming a member of either House within a period of :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

The period is 6 months.

Article 75(5) provides that a Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of either House of Parliament shall cease to be a Minister at the end of that period. So a non-member can be appointed but must become a member of either House within six months. Article 164(4) lays down the same rule for State Ministers.

One year, three months and nine months do not appear in the Article.

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22.

The President shall be elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of ................ .

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The electoral college consists of the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States.

Article 54 provides for this electoral college; by the 70th Amendment it also includes the elected members of the assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry. Nominated members of Parliament and of the assemblies, and members of legislative councils, do not vote.

The other options are incomplete: the President is not chosen by Parliament alone, by the state assemblies alone, or by the Lok Sabha alone. The Vice-President, by contrast, is elected by members of both Houses of Parliament only.

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23.

Article 75(1A) inserted by the 91st Amendment Act, 2003 laid down :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: B

Article 75(1A) limits the total number of Ministers, including the Prime Minister, to fifteen percent of the strength of the House.

The Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act, 2003 inserted Article 75(1A): the total number of Ministers in the Council of Ministers shall not exceed fifteen percent of the total number of members of the House of the People. Article 164(1A) did the same for the states, with a minimum of twelve. The amendment also strengthened the anti-defection law.

Salaries and allowances of Ministers are dealt with by Article 75(6), the tenure of Ministers by the President's pleasure in Article 75(2), and the duty to aid and advise the President by Article 74.

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24.

Audit report relating to account of Union shall be submitted by Comptroller and Auditor-General to :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2025, SET Exam - 2025,

Answer: A

The CAG submits the Union's audit reports to the President of India.

Under Article 151(1), the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor-General relating to the accounts of the Union are submitted to the President, who causes them to be laid before each House of Parliament. Reports on a state's accounts go to the Governor.

Parliament receives the reports only through the President, and its Public Accounts Committee then examines them. The Prime Minister and the Finance Minister head the executive whose accounts are audited, so the reports are not addressed to them.

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25.

(i) The President of India is elected by the system of direct elections.
(ii) The President of India is the Nominal Head of the State.

Which of the above statement are true?

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2024, TNPSC - 2024,

Answer: B

Only (ii) is true: the President of India is the nominal head of the State, with real power resting in the council of ministers.

Statement (i) is false because the President is elected indirectly by an electoral college of elected members of Parliament and the State Legislatures, so option B.

The President is elected indirectly by the Electoral College under Article 54 using a system of proportional representation and the single transferable vote. He is the nominal head, and the actual executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and the council of ministers under Article 74.

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26.

Consider the following statements about the Electoral College of Presidential Election, which among the following statements is correct?

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2025, TNPSC - 2025,

Answer: C

The Electoral College for the Presidential election consists of the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and the elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of the States and of the Union Territories of Delhi and Puducherry.

Nominated members of Parliament, Legislative Councils and the Rajya Sabha do not vote, so the other three options are wrong.

Article 54 makes the college consist of elected members only, and Article 55 provides that the value of each vote is equalised between states and the Union by a formula based on population.

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27.

The Union Executive consists of the

1. Council of Ministers
2. President of India
3. Central Secretariat
4. Vice President

Choose the correct answer by using the code given below :

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2025, TNPSC - 2025,

Answer: C

The Union Executive consists of the President, the Vice-President and the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister, so 1, 2 and 4 only is correct.

The Central Secretariat is the administrative machinery that helps the ministers and is not part of the executive proper, so options that include item 3 are wrong, and 1 only and 1 and 2 only are incomplete.

Article 74 provides for the Council of Ministers to aid and advise the President and the Vice-President is the ex officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, which is why the code with 1, 2 and 4 is chosen.

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28.

The False statements about the Legislative powers of the President are

(i) The Punchhi Commission has recommended that whenever any state bill is sent to the President for his assent under Article 201, he should give his assent within a period of fifteen days.
(ii) Article 111 of the constitution gives details regarding the President's role in the law making.
(iii) The President is given the right to promulgate ordinances under Article 123.

Exam Year(s)

TNPSC Group 1 - 2025, TNPSC - 2025,

Answer: A

Only statement (i) is false. The Punchhi Commission recommended that the President should give assent to a state bill within six months, not fifteen days.

Statements (ii) and (iii) are true: Article 111 deals with the President's assent to bills, and Article 123 gives the President the power to promulgate ordinances when Parliament is not in session. So (i) only is the false statement.

The Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations reported in 2010, and its time-limit suggestion on assent under Article 201 was six months.

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29.

Choose the correct option :

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2025,

Answer: A

The correct statement is that the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People.

Article 75(3) says exactly this: the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha. That is why a government must resign if it loses a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.

Individual ministers hold office during the pleasure of the President (Article 75(2)), but collective responsibility runs to the Lok Sabha, not to the President or the Prime Minister. Since option A is correct, 'None of the above' is wrong.

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30.

The Vice-President of India is elected by

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2015,

Answer: C

The Vice-President is elected by the members of both the Houses of Parliament.

Under Article 66 of the Constitution, the electoral college for the Vice-President consists of the members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, both elected and nominated. The vote is by proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, in a secret ballot.

Members of only one House cannot be right, since both vote. The fourth option, adding the members of the state legislatures, describes the President's election instead, in which the elected members of Parliament and of the state Legislative Assemblies vote and nominated members do not.

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