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Polity
1-Articles of Indian Constitution guarantees freedom to press– Article 19
2- By Single Transferable Vote, the President is elected in India.
3-The item ‘Education’ belongs to the Concurrent List.
4-The word ‘Secularism’ was inserted in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution by 42nd Amendment.
5-In USA , the concept of written constitution was first born .
6-The Preamble to the constitution declares India as A sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic.
7-The constitution of India is partly rigid, partly flexible.
8-By 44th Constitutional amendment , the Right to Property was deleted from the list of Fundamental Rights.
9-In year 1976 Fundamental Duties of citizens were introduced by 42nd Amendment.
10-Sachidanand Sinha was the first president of Constituent Assembly.
11-Edwin Lutyens has designed the Rashtrapati Bhawan
12-Part III of the Indian Constitution deals with “Fundamental Rights
13- In Article 61 of the Constitution of India,the President of India can be impeached.
14-Charter Act of 1793 is associated with ‘Courts can interpret the rules and regulations.’
15-The first statute for the governance of India, under the direct rule of the British Government, was the Government of India Act, 1858
16-Under Government of India Act, 1892, The councils were having a power to discuss the budget and addressing questions to the executive.
17-Government of India Act, 1915 was passed to consolidate the provisions of the preceding Government of India Acts.
18-For the first time Indian Legislature was made ‘Bi-cameral’ under Government of India Act, 1919
19-The plan to transfer of power to the Indians and partition of the country was laid down in the ‘The Mountbatten Plan’.
20- In 21st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1967, Sindhi language was included as 15th regional language in the Eight Schedule.
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