Question

. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follows
Restructuring the Centre-State relations is one more way in which federalism has been strengthened in practice. How the constitutional arrangements for sharing power work in reality depends to a
large extent on how the ruling parties and leaders follow these arrangements. For a long time, the same party ruled both at the Centre and in most of the States. This meant that the State governments did not exercise their rights as autonomous federal units. As and when the ruling party at the State level was different, the parties that ruled at the Centre tried to undermine the power of the States.
In those days, the Central Government would often misuse the Constitution to dismiss the State governments that were controlled by rival parties. This undermined the spirit of federalism.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
12.1 The Centre-state relations undermined the spirit of federalism in the following way
(a) The formation of states led to the disintegration of the country.
(b) The formation of linguistic states made the country united.
(c) The state governments could not exercise their rights as autonomous federal units due to same ruling party at both centre and states.
(d) State government misused the constitution to dismiss the rival parties.
12.2 Constitutional arrangements for sharing power work depends on
(a) same party rule at both centre and states
(b) how ruling parties follow them
(c) strength of federalism
(d) rights of state as autonomous federal units.
12.3 The basic objective of a federal system is to (a) accommodate regional diversity
(b) share powers among different communities
(c) ensure financial autonomy
(d) both (a) and (b)
12.4 The parties that ruled at the centre undermined the power of states because (a) there was no power sharing
(b) there was no right to state governments
(c) ruling party at the state level was different
(d) state governments were ruled and controlled by rival parties.

Answer 1

Answer:

1) C 2) A

Explanation:

3) D 4) D*= state governments were ruled and controlled by rival parties