An Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is used to record
A. politicians preferences
B. voters preferences
C. senior citizens preferences
D. pressure groups preferences
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Priyadarshini scheme provides:
A. Women Empowerment
B. Livelihood in Mid-Gangetic plains
C. Empower to address women legal, political and health problems
D. All the above are correct
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The decision of the Keshavananda Bharati case came in . . . . . . . .
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The Five Year plans launched in India in:
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Consider the incorrect statement regarding New Farms Act, 2020:
A. The Farmer's Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020
B. The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Service Act, 2020
C. The Farmers Protection Act, 2020
D. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020
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Which of these statements are incorrect:
A. the Chipko Movement was an environmental movement to prevent cutting down of trees
B. raised questions of ecological and economic exploitation
C. was a movement against alcoholism started by the women
D. demanded that local communities should have control over their natural resources
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The slogan of 'garibi hatao' was used before the
A. 1952 elections
B. 1967 elections
C. 1971 elections
D. 1977 elections
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Which important amendment to the Constitution was done during the National Emergency?
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Which statement about the second democratic upsurge is TRUE?
A. It did not change the living standard of the SCs, STs and OBCs
B. It gave them lot of self-respect and self esteem
C. It made Indian democracy and politics more accommodative
D. All of the above
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Deen Dayal was born in . . . . . . . .
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In which election, the Indian party system resembled a bi-party system?
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Under the provision of Article . . . . . . . . the government could declare a state of emergency on grounds of external threat or a threat of internal disturbances.
A. 350
B. 352
C. 355
D. None of these
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The main influence of the Bharatiya Kisan Union was there in which of the following states?
A. Uttar Pradesh
B. Haryana
C. Maharashtra
D. Both A and B
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The Bihar movement was led by
A. Charu Majumdar
B. J. P. Narayan
C. Morarji Desai
D. C. Natarajan
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In the first three national elections, Congress won . . . . . . . . seats.
A. Three-fourth
B. Half
C. No
D. All of these
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Government Interventions to reduce Regional Disparities are:
A. Higher resource transfers from the Centre to the Backward States
B. Planning Commission (before 2014) mainly in the form of plan transfers
C. Finance Commission in the form of non-plan transfers
D. All of these
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Who was the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh?
A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. Indira Gandhi
C. Shayama Prasad Mukherjee
D. Sukumar Sen
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Who among the following divided the non-competitive party system into one party authoritarian, one-party pluralistic and one-party totalitarian?
A. Alan Ball
B. La Palaombara and Myron Weiner
C. Harry Eckstein
D. James Jupp
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The era of coalition government began in India in
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After the 1967 elections, in how many states, defections prevented congress from forming government?
A. None of these
B. Two
C. One
D. Five
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