Test: Election, Political Parties and National Terms- 1 - Class 5 MCQ

The Indian Councils Act 1909, commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of lndians in the governance of British India. By this Act, Communal Electoral System was introduced in India. 

Communist Party of India Marxist has remained in power in West Bengal for 30 years and Jyoti Basu as the longest serving Chief Minister of any State of India. 

Hence, option B is the correct answer.

Gandhiji used to say that religion can never be separated from politics. What he meant by religion was not any particular religion like Hinduism or Islam but moral values that inform all religions. He believed that politics must be guided by ethics drawn from religion.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was famously a mentor to Mahatma Gandhi in his formative years. In 1912, Gokhale visited South Africa at Gandhi's invitation. As a young barrister, Gandhi returned from his struggles against the Empire in South Africa and received personal guidance from Gokhale.

Jawaharlal Nehru was the Congress President when Congress declared complete independence as its goal. Declaration of the Independence of India was promulgated by the Indian National Congress on January26,1930, resolving the Congress and Indian nationalists to fight for Puma Swaraj.

Even before the term 'Socialist' was added by the 42nd Amendment to the preamble in 1976, the Constitution had a socialist content in the form of certain Directive Principles of State Policy. In other words, what was hitherto implicit in the Constitution has been made explicit through the amendment. Moreover, the Congress party itself adopted a resolution to establish a ‘socialistic pattern of society’ in its Avadi session as early as in 1955 and took measures accordingly.

Former President Barack Obama ordered US intelligence agencies to assess whether Russia tried to intervene in the election after a cyber attack on the Democratic National Committee in July 2016 and the publication of thousands of hacked personal emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager in the month before the 8 November election. Obama told intelligence officials to deliver a report on possible foreign interference before he left the White House in January 2017. The Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency concluded in a report declassified in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system but to affect the outcome.

The Liberhan Commission was a long-running enquiry commissioned by the Government of India to investigate the destruction of the disputed structure Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.

B. N. Rau was appointed as the Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly in formulating the Indian Constitution. He was responsible for the general structure of its democratic framework of the Constitution and prepared its initial draft in February 1948.

In 1919 in the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, the British set up provincial legislatures which had the power to grant women's suffrage. Also, in 1947, after its independence from the British, India granted equal voting rights to men and women.