QUIZ ON EMERGENCY WITH REGARD TO INDIAN POLITY

Q 1:The Indian Emergency of 25 June 1975 – 21 March 1977 was a 21-month period.Who was the President of India at that time?
Basappa Danappa Jatti
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Dr. Zakir Hussain

Q 2:Click the wrong option.

The President can declare such an emergency only on the basis of a written request by the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister.
The state of emergency is commonly known as 'Army's Rule'.
In January 1977 however, during the emergency declared controversially by Indira Gandhi, the government decided to suspend even the Right to Life and Personal Liberty by dispensing with Habeas corpus. Judge Hans Raj Khanna defended the Right to Life and asked: "Life is also mentioned in Article 21 and would Government argument extend to it also?". The Attorney General observed: "Even if life was taken away illegally, courts are helpless"

Q 3:Who is the author of Indira Gandhi: A personal and political biography?Who has descrobed the period of emergency in his book.

P.C. Alexander
Jagdish Tytler
Inder Malhotra

Q 4:Click the wrong match.
National emergency -Art 352
State emergency-353
Financial emergency-360

Q 5:Who was the Chief Justice of India during the period of emergency in 1975 ?
Hansraj Khanna
A. N. Ray
S. M. Sikri

Q 6:The President can proclaim Financial Emergency if he is satisfied that the financial stability or the credit of India or any part there of is threatened.
Such a proclamation must be approved by the Parliament within............ .
15 days
one month
two month

Q 7:Before the ......... Amendment Act, 1976, there was no provision in the Constitution which made the advice of the Council of Ministers obligatory on the President.
41st
42nd
43rd

Q 8:In National Emergency (Art. 352),Article ...... can only be suspended in case of external emergency and not in the case of internal emergency.
09
19
29

Q 9:Which amendment made it clear that the words "internal disturbance" replace with the words "armed rebellion" in case a Emergency be proclaimed.
40th
42nd
44th

Q 10:The Sarkaria Commission has the recommendations for the emergency in which its report in chapter no.?
V
VI
VII