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5. What is the position of the President of India like?
6. What are the two houses of the Parliament?

E. Answer the questions in brief :
1. What are the reasons that the parliamentary form of government was chosen for India?
2. What are the organs of the government? What is the difference between the legislature and the
executive?
3. How is the Lok Sabha constituted?

4. What is the difference between an ordinary bill and a money bill?
5. How is the Prime Minister of India appointed?
6. What are the qualifications laid down to become a member of the Lok Sabha?

F. Answer the questions in detail :
1. Who is the President of India? What powers does he enjoy?
2. What are the chief functions of the Parliament?
3. What do you understand by the three lists? What happens when a state legislature and the
Parliament make a law on a subject included in the Concurrent List?
4. Describe the merits of the parliamentry form of government.

5. Describe the composition of the Rajya Sabha.
6. Discuss the relative position of the President and the Prime Minister of India.

1. How does the Parliament keep the ministers accountable?

2. How can you say that though the President is the constitutional head of the state, the true head of
the state is the Prime Minister?

The Speaker of the Lok Sabha
The Speaker is also elected among the members of the Lok Sabha to preside over
the parliamentary sessions. The Speaker conducts all the proceedings of the Lok
Sabha. He is responsible for maintaining discipline in the house and he allows time
to the members to speak in the Lok Sabha. All resolutions and bills have to be
moved with the Speaker’s permission. He decides whether a bill is a money bill or
an ordinary one. The office of the Speaker is held in great respect. In the absence Meira Kumar
(The first woman Lok
of the Speaker, his duties are performed by the Deputy Speaker. Sabha Speaker)

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