Cengage Experts Team Solutions for Chapter: Part V The Union, Exercise 1: Practice Questions

Which of the following statements regarding the pardoning powers of the President is incorrect?

1. The pardoning power of the president does not extend to state laws.

2. President can completely pardon the death sentence.

3. The power to pardon is the discretionary power of the president.

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With reference to Indian President, consider the following statements:

1. It is the President who takes the decision on allocation of portfolios among ministers.

2. It is the President who can remove any minister.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The Electoral College to elect the President of India consists of _____.

1. All the members of Lok Sabha.

2. All the members of Legislative Assemblies of State.

3. All the members of Rajya Sabha.

4. All the members of Legislative Councils of states

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Which one of the following is part of the electoral college for the election of the President of India but does not form part of the forum for his impeachment?

Which of the following statements regarding the election of the President is incorrect?

$1$. Elected members of Legislative Councils of States also participate in the election.

$2$. The value of the vote of a Member of Parliament (MP) is equal to the total value of votes of all the elected members of Legislative Assemblies upon the total number of elected MP.

$3$. Even if there are more than two candidates, the successful candidate requires an absolute majority to win the election.

$4$. If the legislative Assemblies of State is dissolved during the election, then the members of that assembly do not participate in the presidential election.

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Consider the following statements:

In the electoral college for the Presidential election in India

1. The value of the vote of an elected Member of Legislative Assembly equal to

$\frac{State popullation}{ Number of Elected MLAs of the State x1000}$

2. The value of the vote of an elected Member of Parliament equals to

$\frac{total value of the votes of all elected MLA’s }{ total number of elected MP’s }$

3. In the last Presidential election, there were more than 5000 members in the latest elections.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 

In the presidential election in India, every elected member of the legislative assembly of the state shall have a many votes as there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient obtained by dividing the population of the state by the total number of elected numbers of the assembly as the present ($2017$) the expression "Population" here means the population as ascertained by the _____.

Consider the following facts of president. Which of the following is not undertaken as per the discretionary power of the president?