TNPSC Group 2 Polity — practice by topic

Answer: D. Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha served as Provisional President of the Constituent Assembly. On December 9, 1946 (the first session of the Constituent Assembly), Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha was elected Provisional President. He was the oldest member present and presided per French parliamentary convention. He was a senior lawyer from Bihar with extensive legislative experience. On December 11, 1946, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as the permanent President of the Constituent Assembly, a position he held throughout the framing of the Constitution. **Distractors fail:** (A) C. Rajagopalachari became Governor-General later but was not Provisional President. (B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee, not the Assembly itself. (C) T.T. Krishnamachari was a Drafting Committee member. Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work Ch 1 (The Constitution) / Constituent Assembly Debates Vol I.

Answer: D. Four Delimitation Commissions have been constituted in India till December 2023. Delimitation Commissions are quasi-judicial bodies set up to redraw the boundaries of Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly constituencies based on census data. The four commissions to date: (1) 1952 — first commission under the Delimitation Commission Act 1952. (2) 1962 — second commission after 1961 Census. (3) 1972 — third commission after 1971 Census. (4) 2002 — fourth commission under the Delimitation Act 2002, work completed in 2008. A fifth commission was constituted in 2020 specifically for the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast states (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland), but this is a regional limited-scope commission rather than a national one. The standard count cited in official sources up to December 2023 remains four. Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work Ch 3 (Election and Representation) / Election Commission of India.

Answer: D. The Supreme Court placed the Right to Privacy under ARTICLE 21 of the Constitution. In the landmark K.S. Puttaswamy vs Union of India (2017) judgment, a 9-judge bench of the Supreme Court unanimously held that the Right to Privacy is a fundamental right protected as an INTRINSIC part of Article 21 (right to life and personal liberty) and as a component of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution. The judgment overruled earlier views (M.P. Sharma 1954, Kharak Singh 1962) that had denied privacy as a fundamental right. Privacy was held to flow primarily from the dignity, autonomy and personal liberty protected by Article 21. Distractors: (A) Article 15 is non-discrimination (B) Article 16 is equality in public employment (C) Article 19 is freedoms of speech/movement etc but not the primary anchor for privacy. Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work Ch 2 (Rights in the Indian Constitution) / Puttaswamy judgment 2017.