{"id":2145,"date":"2024-04-25T01:16:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2024-04-25T01:16:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T19:46:50","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-91","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. A bill\u00a0amending the Constitution<\/strong>\u00a0requires a prior\u00a0recommendation<\/strong>\u00a0of the President of India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. When a Constitution Amendment Bill is presented to the President of India, it is obligatory for the President of India to give his\/her assent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. A Constitution Amendment Bill must be passed by both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha by a special majority and there is no provision for joint sitting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer: (b) 2 and 3 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • According to Article 368 of the Indian constitution,\u00a0prior approval of the President is not required for the Constitutional Amendment Act.\u00a0<\/strong>The bill can be\u00a0introduced either by a minister or by a private member.<\/strong>\u00a0If the bill seeks to amend the federal provisions of the Constitution, it must also be ratified by the legislatures of half of the states by a simple majority, that is, a majority of the members of the House present and voting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The 24th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment of the Indian Constitution amended Article 368<\/strong>\u00a0to provide expressly that Parliament has the power to amend\u00a0any provision<\/strong>\u00a0of the Constitution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • As per the 1971 amendment of Article 368, it has been obligatory for the President to give his assent to the Constitutional Amendment Bill and the President cannot exercise any veto power regarding this<\/strong>. The president\u00a0cannot exercise his veto powers<\/strong>\u00a0with respect to the Constitution Amendment Bill. The president must give his assent to the bill. He can neither withhold his assent to the bill nor return the bill for reconsideration of the Parliament. After the president\u2019s assent, the bill becomes an Act and the Constitution stands amended in accordance with the terms of the Act.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The\u00a0Constitutional Amendment Bill needs to be passed by both the houses separately by a special majority and there is no provision of joint sitting<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Which of the statements given above are correct? Answer: (b) 2 and 3 only Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[51],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-51"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":51,"label":"2022"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}