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UPSC CDS Constitution of India — practice questions — page 19

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Whose demand for Only Sinhala came at the cost of the Tamil community?Read the answer and worked solution →Attempts at forced integration in the name of national unity often:Read the answer and worked solution →Expression of various social divisions in politics often results in their:Read the answer and worked solution →Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech was delivered in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Olympic protest cluesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Northern Ireland wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the diversity datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the diversity wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Overlapping or cross-cuttingRead the answer and worked solution →Sort people, countries and termsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Democracy and diversity bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In the 1987 Haryana election, Lok Dal and its partners won how many of the 90 seats?Read the answer and worked solution →Devi Lal's 1987 movement against the Haryana government was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections are held regularly after every:Read the answer and worked solution →An election held in one constituency to fill a vacancy caused by death or resignation is a:Read the answer and worked solution →For Lok Sabha elections the country is divided into how many constituencies?Read the answer and worked solution →How many Lok Sabha seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes, as on 26 January 2019?Read the answer and worked solution →Lok Sabha seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes number:Read the answer and worked solution →In rural and urban local bodies, what share of seats is reserved for women?Read the answer and worked solution →The official name of the voters' list is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The minimum age to vote in India is 18. The minimum age to be a candidate is:Read the answer and worked solution →A complete revision of the voters' list takes place every:Read the answer and worked solution →Election campaigns in India officially run for what period before polling?Read the answer and worked solution →Garibi Hatao was the Congress slogan in the Lok Sabha election of:Read the answer and worked solution →Save Democracy was the 1977 slogan of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Land to the Tiller was the slogan of the Left Front in:Read the answer and worked solution →Election law caps candidate spending in a Lok Sabha constituency at:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Model Code of Conduct, once elections are announced ministers must not:Read the answer and worked solution →In 2014, Mallikarjun Kharge won Gulbarga with about what share of votes polled?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Whose demand for Only Sinhala came at the cost of the Tamil community?

  1. Sri Lanka
  2. Myanmar
  3. Yugoslavia
  4. Malaysia
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Correct answer: A. Sri Lanka

1. Demands within the constitution are easier to accommodate. 2. Sri Lanka's Only Sinhala demand hurt Tamils. 3. Belgium accommodated its communities instead. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 3, Democracy and Diversity._

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Attempts at forced integration in the name of national unity often:

  1. Win landslide elections
  2. Sow seeds of disintegration
  3. Strengthen national unity
  4. End all social divisions
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Correct answer: B. Sow seeds of disintegration

1. Suppressing reasonable demands backfires. 2. Forced integration sows seeds of disintegration. 3. Sharing power makes divisions less threatening. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 3, Democracy and Diversity._

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Expression of various social divisions in politics often results in their:

  1. Turning violent at once
  2. Vanishing forever after
  3. Cancelling one another out
  4. Multiplying very rapidly
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Correct answer: C. Cancelling one another out

1. Political expression of divisions is normal in a democracy. 2. Divisions often cancel one another out. 3. This reduces their intensity. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 3, Democracy and Diversity._

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