UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah intervenes in the discussion in the Lok Sabha on the Delimitation Bill, 2026, the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the Union Territories Laws (...

Q1. As the Constitution stood immediately before the introduction of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha was fixed at how many members?

  • A. 543
  • B. 545
  • C. 550
  • D. 552

Q2. The three Bills of 2026 that sought to end the freeze on inter-state allocation of Lok Sabha seats imposed by the earlier Constitutional Amendments were piloted in the Lok Sabha by which Union Ministry?

  • A. Ministry of Law and Justice
  • B. Ministry of Home Affairs
  • C. Election Commission of India
  • D. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Q3. Which Constitutional Amendment was the FIRST to freeze the total number of Lok Sabha seats allotted to each State on the basis of the 1971 census?

  • A. 31st Amendment (1973)
  • B. 42nd Amendment (1976)
  • C. 84th Amendment (2001)
  • D. 87th Amendment (2003)

Q4. Which was the first Constitutional Amendment to provide for reservation of one-third of the seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies?

  • A. 73rd Amendment
  • B. 74th Amendment
  • C. 106th Amendment
  • D. 108th Amendment

Q5. The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023 reserves exactly what fraction of the total seats in the Lok Sabha for women?

  • A. one-fourth
  • B. one-third
  • C. one-half
  • D. one-fifth

Q6. The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 proposed to raise the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha to how many members?

  • A. 815
  • B. 848
  • C. 850
  • D. 888

Q7. The freeze on inter-state allocation of Lok Sabha seats — the crux of the North-South representation debate — was extended until 'the first census taken after the year 2026' by which Constitutional Amendment?

  • A. 42nd Amendment
  • B. 84th Amendment
  • C. 87th Amendment
  • D. 91st Amendment

Q8. Under Article 368, the 'special majority' required to pass a Constitution Amendment Bill in each House of Parliament means precisely which of the following?

  • A. A simple majority of the members present and voting in each House
  • B. A majority of the total membership of each House and a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of that House present and voting
  • C. Not less than two-thirds of the total membership of each House
  • D. A three-fourths majority of the members present and voting in each House

Q9. Had the 2026 Bills been enacted, the actual redrawing and reallocation of the expanded Lok Sabha constituencies would have been carried out by which body?

  • A. The Election Commission of India acting on its own
  • B. A Delimitation Commission constituted by the Central Government
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. The Ministry of Home Affairs