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G. Answer the questions in brief :
1. What are the lists on all subjects divided into? On what subjects can a state government legislate?
2. Who appoints the Chief Minister? How does he decide who should become the Chief Minister?

3. Who can become a member of a Vidhan Sabha?
4. What type of ministers are there in a Council of Ministers?
5. What are the three organs of a state Government?

6. What do you understand by the discretionary powers of a Governor?
H. Answer the questions in detail :

1. What are the powers and functions of the Governor of a state?
2. What is the role of the speaker of the Vidhan Sabha?

3. What is the difference between a unicameral and a bicameral legislatures in the states?
4. What is the judicial jurisdiction of a High Court?
5. What is the legislative function of the state government?

6. Write a short note on the Vidhan Parishad.

1. Why do we say that the ministers work on the principle of collective responsibility?
2. Some states in India have a bicameral legislature. Why?

Jyoti Basu

Jyoti Basu was born in Calcutta on 8 July 1914. He was the Chief Minister of
West Bengal from 1977–2000. He had many achievements to his name, such as
being India’s largest serving Chief minister (overtaken by Pawan Kumar
Chamling) and a beacon of India’s Communist movement. But in 1996, he
came close to adding another feather to his cap – almost becoming India’s first
Bengali and Marxist Prime Minister, eventually losing out to H.D. Deve Gowda
when his Communist Party of India (Marxist) decided not to join the United
Front government.

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