Question 1
(a) What is the normal term of office of the Lok Sabha?
(b)
State the meaning of the term Question Hour.
(C)
Name the Presiding officer of the Lok Sabha.
(d)
State any one condition when the Parliament can legislate on subjects in the
State List.
(e)
Write any one circumstance when the President can declare a National
Emergency
Answers
Answer:
(a) The term of the Lok Sabha, unless dissolved, is five years from the date appointed for its first meeting.
(b) Question Hour is the first hour of a sitting session of India's Lok Sabha devoted to questions that Members of Parliament raise about any aspect of administrative activity.
(c) Om Birla of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the current Speaker who presides over the 17th Lok Sabha.
(d) Parliament can make laws on a matter in state list, if the Rajya Sabha says that it is necessary in the national interest that Parliament should make laws on that matter.
(e) National Emergency can only be declared on grounds of "External aggression or war", also called as External Emergency & on the ground of "armed rebellion", also called as Internal Emergency.