Best Indian Polity MCQ for SSC 

Boost your SSC exam preparation with the Best Indian Polity MCQs. These questions cover the Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Duties, and key political institutions — essential for cracking SSC 2025!

Best Indian Polity MCQ for SSC Set:-1

Best Indian Polity 50 MCQ

Q1: In _, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

a) Nagaland

b) Mizoram

c) Manipur

d) Meghalaya

Answer: d) Meghalaya
(Explanation: The Inner Line Permit (ILP) is operational in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Manipur. It is not operational in Meghalaya.)

Q2: Democracy is a form of government in which rulers are _ by the people.

a) appointed

b) nominated

c) elected

d) selected

Answer: c) elected

Q3: Building of the Parliament of India is called………..

a) Sansad Bhavan

b) Rashtrapati Bhavan

c) Vigyan Bhavan

d) India Gate

Answer: a) Sansad Bhavan

Q4: The Indian Parliament house was designed by………………

a) Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker

b) Le Corbusier

c) Charles Correa

d) Frank Gehry

Answer: a) Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker

Q5: Which among the following is the supreme law that determines the relationship between people living in a territory and also the relationship between the people and the government?

a) Statute

b) Convention

c) Constitution

d) Ordinance

Answer: c) Constitution (Mock Test Now)

Q6: Who among the following appoints the Lokayukta and Uplokayukta?

a) Chief Minister

b) Governor

c) President

d) Chief Justice of High Court

Answer: b) Governor

Q7: What is the correct full form of NRC?

a) National Register of Citizens

b) National Rights Commission

c) National Rural Census

d) National River Connectivity

Answer: a) National Register of Citizens

Q8: What is meant by the expression ‘rule of law’?

a) Rule by the king

b) Rule by the military

c) Equality before law

d) Rule by the wealthy

Answer: c) Equality before law

Q9: Which among the following is a full form of CAB when it is NOT related to cricket?

a) Central Advisory Board

b) Citizenship Amendment Bill

c) Cabinet Affairs Bureau

d) Central Aviation Board

Answer: b) Citizenship Amendment Bill

Q10: Which of the following is not a compulsory task of a state?

a) Maintaining law and order

b) Providing education

c) Building temples

d) Ensuring public health

Answer: c) Building temples
(Explanation: In a secular state, building religious places is not a compulsory function of the state.)

Q11: “Political independence without economic equality is an illusion”, whose statement is this?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) B.R. Ambedkar

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Sardar Patel

Answer: b) B.R. Ambedkar

Q12: Who rejected the “Principles of administration as myths and proverbs” ?

a) Luther Gulick

b) Lyndall Urwick

c) Herbert Simon

d) Max Weber

Answer: c) Herbert Simon

Q13: Which of the following is Human Right under Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

a) Right to education

b) Right to food

c) Right to work

d) All of the above

Answer: d) All of the above

Q14: In the context of National Integration Council, which of the following statements is NOT correct?

a) It is chaired by the Prime Minister.

b) It is a constitutional body.

c) It promotes national unity and harmony.

d) Its first meeting was held in 1962.

Answer: b) It is a constitutional body.
(Explanation: The National Integration Council is an extra-constitutional body.)

Q15: “The state is everywhere: it leaves hardly a gap”, this statement explains the concept of…………

a) Welfare state

b) Police state

c) Minimal state

d) Anarchic state

Answer: a) Welfare state

Q16: Which of the following is not a feature of good governance ?

a) Transparency

b) Accountability

c) Rule of the few

d) Responsiveness

Answer: c) Rule of the few
(Explanation: Good governance promotes inclusivity and participation, not rule by a select group.)

Q17: At present time how many Zonal Councils are working in India?

a) 5

b) 6

c) 7

d) 8

Answer: b) 6
(Explanation: There are 5 Zonal Councils (Northern, Central, Eastern, Western, Southern) and 1 North Eastern Council, which functions as a zonal council.)

Q18: Which of the following thinker is associated with “the concept of political sovereignty?

a) John Locke

b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

c) John Austin

d) Thomas Hobbes

Answer: c) John Austin
(Explanation: John Austin is known for his theory of legal positivism and the concept of sovereign as a determinate human superior receiving habitual obedience.)

Q19: Who said, “A good citizen makes a good state and a bad citizen makes a bad state”?

a) Plato

b) Aristotle

c) Socrates

d) Machiavelli

Answer: b) Aristotle

Q20: In a Parliamentary form of Government——

a) The President is directly elected by the people.

b) The executive is responsible to the legislature.

c) The judiciary is supreme.

d) The head of state and head of government are the same person.

Answer: b) The executive is responsible to the legislature.

Q21: Parliamentary Government is a form of Constitutional democracy in which

a) The head of state and head of government are separate.

b) The executive is not accountable to the legislature.

c) The judiciary has absolute power.

d) Power is concentrated in a single entity.

Answer: a) The head of state and head of government are separate.
(Explanation: In a parliamentary system, the head of state (e.g., President in India) is distinct from the head of government (Prime Minister).)

Q22: The members of the All India Services serve the:

a) Union Government only

b) State Governments only

c) Both Union and State Governments

d) Public Sector Undertakings

Answer: c) Both Union and State Governments

Q23: A motion moved by Member of Parliament when he feels a minister has committed a breach of privilege of the House by withholding facts of a case is called

a) Adjournment Motion

b) Censure Motion

c) Privilege Motion

d) No-Confidence Motion

Answer: c) Privilege Motion (Mock Test Now)

Q24: Political Science is a science of.

a) Wealth

b) State and Government

c) Human Behavior

d) Natural Phenomena

Answer: b) State and Government

Q25: Which of the following is not the essential element of the State?

a) Population

b) Territory

c) Government

d) Political Party

Answer: d) Political Party
(Explanation: The four essential elements of a state are population, territory, government, and sovereignty.)

Q26: In which form of government priests rule in the name of God?

a) Monarchy

b) Theocracy

c) Oligarchy

d) Dictatorship

Answer: b) Theocracy

Q27: The Look East Policy in India was started by which of the following Prime Ministers?

a) Indira Gandhi

b) Rajiv Gandhi

c) P.V. Narasimha Rao

d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Answer: c) P.V. Narasimha Rao

Q28: Since Independence, India has been ruled by the Indian National Congress for how many years?

a) Approximately 40-45 years

b) Approximately 50-55 years

c) Approximately 60-65 years

d) Approximately 70-75 years

Answer: b) Approximately 50-55 years
(Explanation: The Indian National Congress ruled continuously from 1947 to 1977, and then for significant periods afterwards, making the cumulative period over 50 years.)

Q29: Which country’s constitution is the world’s longest ?

a) United States

b) China

c) India

d) United Kingdom

Answer: c) India

Q30: The Constitution of which country is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world?

a) United States

b) Canada

c) Australia

d) India

Answer: d) India

Q31: First country to appoint Lokpal or equivalent to a Lokpal is………..

a) Sweden

b) Finland

c) Norway

d) Denmark

Answer: a) Sweden
(Explanation: Sweden established the office of Ombudsman, which is equivalent to Lokpal, in 1809.)

Q32: Rashtrapati Bhavan was built in……… .

a) 1912

b) 1929

c) 1931

d) 1947

Answer: b) 1929
(Explanation: The main construction was completed by 1929, though formally inaugurated later.)

Q33: In the original constitution of India was published in?

a) English

b) Hindi

c) English and Hindi

d) Sanskrit

Answer: c) English and Hindi
(Explanation: The original handwritten Constitution was published in both English and Hindi.)

Q34: The Westminster parliamentary system was developed in——.

a) United States

b) United Kingdom

c) France

d) Germany

Answer: b) United Kingdom

Q35: Call sign of any aircraft carrying the Indian President is

a) Air India One

b) Indian Air Force One

c) Republic One

d) Bharat One

Answer: a) Air India One

Q36: First country to make constitution is…….. .

a) United Kingdom

b) France

c) United States of America

d) India

Answer: c) United States of America

Q37: Indian Constitution is made up of how many words?

a) Approximately 80,000 words

b) Approximately 117,369 words

c) Approximately 145,000 words

d) Approximately 100,000 words

Answer: b) Approximately 117,369 words
(Explanation: The original unamended English version had about 117,369 words, making it the longest written constitution.)

Q38: Republic means ultimate power is held by

a) The King

b) The hereditary ruler

c) The people and their elected representatives

d) The military

Answer: c) The people and their elected representatives

Q39: The form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a faction of persons or families is called

a) Democracy

b) Monarchy

c) Oligarchy

d) Anarchy

Answer: c) Oligarchy

Q40: Which one of the following countries was first to establish a modern democracy?

a) France

b) United Kingdom

c) United States

d) India

Answer: c) United States
(Explanation: While the UK had a long history of parliamentary development, the US was the first to establish a modern constitutional republic with a clear separation of powers and democratic elections.)

Q41: The Greek viewed “politics” on the basis of :

a) Economics and trade

b) Ethics and morality

c) Warfare and conquest

d) Art and culture

Answer: b) Ethics and morality
(Explanation: For the ancient Greeks, politics was intrinsically linked to ethics and the pursuit of a good life for citizens within the Polis.)

Q42: Which of the following is not considered a Democracy?

a) India

b) United States

c) China

d) United Kingdom

Answer: c) China (Mock Test Now)
(Explanation: China operates under a one-party system (Communist Party of China) and is not considered a multi-party democracy.)

Q43: Which of the following is false with reference to Parliamentary type of executive?

a) It ensures close coordination between legislature and executive.

b) The executive is responsible to the legislature.

c) The head of the state is also the head of the government.

d) It prevents despotism.

Answer: c) The head of the state is also the head of the government.
(Explanation: In a parliamentary system, the head of state and head of government are typically separate individuals (e.g., President and Prime Minister in India, or Queen/King and Prime Minister in the UK).)

Q44: How many polities does the institution mechanism of federalism accommodate?

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

Answer: b) Two
(Explanation: Federalism involves at least two levels of government: a central/union government and regional/state governments.)

Q45: The National Board for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises meets once every _ months in a year.

a) Three

b) Six

c) Nine

d) Twelve

Answer: b) Six

Q46: The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act was passed in the year __.

a) 2005

b) 2006

c) 2007

d) 2008

Answer: b) 2006

Q47: In which year was the University Grants Commission (UGC) formally established?

a) 1950

b) 1953

c) 1956

d) 1961

Answer: c) 1956
(Explanation: It was formally established as a statutory body by an Act of Parliament in 1956.)

Q48: In India states with____get more representative.

a) smaller population

b) larger population

c) higher literacy rate

d) more area

Answer: b) larger population
(Explanation: Representation in Lok Sabha and state assemblies is largely based on population.)

Q49: Democracy is considered superior to dictatorship because it :

a) Ensures faster decision making.

b) Allows for greater individual freedom and participation.

c) Concentrates power in a single authority.

d) Is more efficient in implementing policies.

Answer: b) Allows for greater individual freedom and participation.

Q50: According to constitution India will as____ .

a) Unitary state

b) Federation with a strong centre

c) Confederation

d) Presidential republic

Answer: b) Federation with a strong centre
(Explanation: While India is a federal system, it has a strong central government, often described as ‘quasi-federal’ or ‘federal in form, unitary in spirit’.)

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