Polity MCQ — 88 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

The MoU provided that Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission would rent 30,000 control units and 60,000 ballot units to Rajasthan State Election Commission for local body elections. The same report states that first-level checking, repairs and technical support were to be done by authorised ECIL, Hyderabad engineers, not CEERI, Pilani. Therefore only statement A is correct, so option A is correct.

Explanation

Statements (A) and (B) are correct: the Congress accepted the linguistic basis at its Nagpur Session in 1920, but after Independence and Partition the leadership feared that language-based states could weaken national unity. Statement (C) is wrong because the first post-Independence linguistic state was Andhra State in 1953, not Tamil Nadu in 1952. Statement (D) is also wrong because the States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in 1953, not 1952; hence A is correct.

Explanation

The Preamble of the Indian Constitution gives the assurances in the sequence: Justice (social, economic and political), Liberty (of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship), Equality (of status and of opportunity), and Fraternity. The correct sequence is Justice → Liberty → Equality → Fraternity, which corresponds to option C.

Explanation

Verified service records show Rajesh Balia became Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Prakash Tatia became Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court, and Nagendra Kumar Jain served as Chief Justice of Madras and Karnataka High Courts. N.N. Mathur is recorded as a judge of the Rajasthan and Gujarat High Courts and later Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Jodhpur, but not as Chief Justice of another State's High Court. Therefore option C is correct.

Explanation

The correct answer is A. In this standard MCQ, social justice is described as a balance between individual rights and social control: rights protect personal freedoms, while social control maintains order and protects the wider community.