{"id":2192,"date":"2024-04-25T05:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2024-04-25T05:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:24:46","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-99","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>44th Amendment<\/strong>\u00a0to the Constitution of India introduced an Article placing the election of the Prime Minister\u00a0<strong>beyond judicial review.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Supreme Court of India struck down the 99th Amendment to the Constitution of India as being violative of the independence of judiciary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>thirty-ninth Amendment<\/strong>\u00a0of the Constitution of India; enacted on 10th\u00a0<strong>August 1975<\/strong>, placed the\u00a0<strong>election of the President, the Vice President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the Lok Sabha<\/strong>\u00a0beyond the scrutiny of the Indian courts.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>passed during the Emergency of 1975\u20131977<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This amendment act\u00a0<strong>removed the authority of the Supreme Court<\/strong>\u00a0to adjudicate petitions regarding elections of the President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instead,\u00a0<strong>a body constituted by Parliament\u00a0<\/strong>would be vested with the power to resolve such election disputes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>ninty-ninth Constitutional Amendment<\/strong>\u00a0of India would have established the National Judicial Appointments Commission.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)<\/strong>\u00a0was a body tasked with appointing judges to the higher judiciary in India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Article 124<\/strong>\u00a0of the Constitution was\u00a0<strong>amended through the 99th Amendment\u00a0<\/strong>to reflect the change in the system of appointments from the collegium system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But,\u00a0<strong>in 2015<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Constitution Bench of Supreme Court<\/strong>\u00a0by 4:1 majority\u00a0<strong>upheld the collegium system<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>struck down the NJAC as unconstitutional<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fortyfourth-amendment-act-1978\">Forty-Fourth Amendment Act, 1978<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Restored the original term<\/strong>\u00a0of the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies (i.e., 5 years).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Restored the provisions with regard to the quorum in the Parliament and state legislatures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Omitted the reference to the British House of Commons in the provisions pertaining to the parliamentary privileges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gave constitutional protection to publication in a newspaper of true reports of the proceedings of the Parliament and the state legislatures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empowered the president to send back once the advice of the cabinet for reconsideration. But, the reconsidered advice is to be binding on the president.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deleted the provision which made the satisfaction of the president, governor, and administrators final in issuing ordinances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Restored some of the powers of the Supreme Court and high courts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Replaced the term \u2018internal disturbance\u2019 by \u2018armed rebellion\u2019 in respect of national emergency.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Made the President to declare a national emergency only on the written recommendation of the cabinet.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Made certain procedural safeguards with respect to a national emergency and President\u2019s rule.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deleted the right to property from the list of Fundamental Rights and made it only a legal right.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Provided that the fundamental rights guaranteed by Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended during a national emergency.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Omitted the provisions which took away the power of the court to decide the election disputes of the president, the vice-president, the prime minister and the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Also Read<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/important-amendments-in-indian-constitution-for-upsc\/\">Important Amendments in Indian Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? 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