Political Scenario (Madhya Pradesh)– Old Year Questions and Answers

• The correct order of proceedings of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is
  • Oath of affirmation
  • Governor’s Address
  • Introduction of Ministers
  • Mention of death
• Hence, option (b) will be the correct answer.

• Madhya Pradesh was changed on 1 November 1956.
• Then, on 1 November 2000, Madhya Pradesh was changed again to create a new state called Chhattisgarh.

• Madhya Pradesh was changed on November 1st, 1956.
• Then on November 1st, 2000, Madhya Pradesh was changed again to create the new state of Chhattisgarh.

• Madhya Pradesh Day is celebrated every year on November 1st, as this is the day when Madhya Pradesh became an official state in 1956.

• The Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission was created on February 1, 1994, by the State Government’s General Administration Department.
• It started its operations on February 15, 1994, when the first state Election Commissioner took office.

• When Chhattisgarh became its own state in 2000, Madhya Pradesh had 45 districts.
• Now there are 52 districts in Madhya Pradesh (or 50 according to the 2011 Census).

• In the year 1998, Madhya Pradesh had 45 districts but after 16 more districts were added, the total number of districts in the state reached 61.
• Then in 2000, 16 districts in the southeast of Madhya Pradesh were separated to form the new state of Chhattisgarh.
• Now, Madhya Pradesh has 52 districts and the last one is Niwari.

• Madhya Pradesh has 10 zones.
• When this was asked, Indore division had the most districts at 8: Alirajpur, Barwani, Burhanpur, Dhar, Indore, Jhabua, Khandwa (Eastern Nimar), and Khargaun (Western Nimar).
• Jabalpur division also has 8 districts.
• The Chambal division has a small number of districts.

• In 1998, sixteen districts were created in Madhya Pradesh.
• These were Barwani, Sheopur, Katani, Dindori, West Sarguja, Jashpur, Janjgir-Champa, Korba, Kaker, Dantewada, Mahasamund, Dhamtari, Kawardha, Umariya, Harada and Neemuch.
• Burhanpur was created in 2003 and Agar-Malwa was established in 2013.
• Option (d) is the answer.

• The Indian Constitution of India states that there must be reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes in Municipalities in Madhya Pradesh. This is stated in Article 243 T (1).

• The state animals, birds, and trees of Madhya Pradesh are Barasingha, Paradise Flycatcher (Dudhraj), and Indian Banyan.

• The District Panchayat is the third level of the Panchayati Raj system.
• It is an elected body made up of members who are chosen from the district by people who are 18 years or older.
• This was made part of the Indian Constitution in 1992 by the 73rd Amendment Act.
• They are in office for five years.

• Itarsi is a very important train station in India.
• It is part of the Hoshangabad district, but the main administrative center of the district is located in Hoshangabad City, not Itarsi.

• K.C. Reddy was the governor of Madhya Pradesh from 1965 to 1971.
• Sarala Grewal was the Governor from 1989 to 1990.
• H.V. Pataskar was the Governor from 1957 to 1965.
• Govind Narayan Singh was the Chief Minister from 1967 to 1969.
• Currently, Mangubai Patel is the governor of Madhya Pradesh.

• The tenure of the governors was –
  • Dr. Balram Jakhar – 30 June, 2004 – 29 June, 2009
  • Shri Rameshwar Thakur – 30 June 2009 – 7 September 2011
  • Dr. Bhai Mahaveer – 22 April 1998 – 6 May June 2003
  • Justice Anshuman Singh is a former governor of Rajasthan.

• Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, more commonly known as Panditji, was the first person to be the Chief Minister of Haryana and later Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
• He is remembered as one of the greatest leaders of Haryana and is still celebrated today.
• He also was the Governor of Odisha.

• Pt. Ravishankar Shukla was the first CM of Madhya Pradesh, and Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was the very first Governor of the state.

• Neither Digvijay Singh nor Motilal Vora had ever been the opposition leader in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
• In 1993, Digvijay Singh became the 14th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and held the office for two terms until 2003.
• Vora was appointed as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in March 1985, making option (a) the correct answer.

• Uma Bharati was the first female Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
• She was in office from December 8th, 2003 to August 23rd, 2004.
• Mrs. Vijayaraje Scindia was the leader of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly (before it was divided) from 30 July 1967 to 25 March 1969.

• Virendra Kumar Saklecha was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 18 January 1978 to 19 January 1980.
• After him, Sunderlal Patwa became Chief Minister from 20 July 1980 to 17 February 1980.

• The tenure of the above persons as the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh was as follows :
• Shri Prakash Chandra Sethi – 29 January 1972 to 22 March 1978 – 23 March 1972 to 22 December 1975.
• Shri Govind Narayan Singh – 30 July 1967 to 12 March 1969.
• Shri Dwarika Prasad (D.P.) Mishra – 30 September 1963 to 8 March 1967 – 08 March 1967 to 29 July 1967.
• Shri V.C. Shukla never served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

• Raja Naresh Chandra Singh (13 March 1969 to 25 March 1969), Govind Narayan Singh (30 July 1967 to 12 March 1969), and Bhagwant Rao Annabhau Mandloi (09 January 1957 to 30 January 1957 and 12 March 1962 to 29 September 1963) were the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. Whereas V.C. Shukla was never the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

• The tenure of the above persons as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh is as follows :
• Pt. Ravishankar Shukla – 1 November 1956 to 31 December 1956.
• Arjun Singh – 9 June 1980 to 10 March 1985 11 March 1985 to 12 March 1985 14 February 1988 to 23 January 1989.
• Dr. Kailash Nath Katju – 31 January 1957 to 14 April 1957 15 April 1957 to 11 March 1962.
• Digvijay Singh – 7 December 1993 to 1 December 1998 1 December 1998 to 8 December 2003.
• At Present Mr. ShivRaj Singh Chauhan is the Chief Minister (also served longest as Chief Minister).

• Chhattisgarh was created from Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 2000.
• The leader of Madhya Pradesh at that time was Digvijay Singh.

• Justice N.D. Ojha (1 December 1987 – 29 December 1987).
• Justice P.V. Dixit (3 February 1966 – 9 February 1966).
• Justice G.P. Singh (26 May 1981 – 9 July 1981 and 21 September 1983 – 7 October 1983) has been the acting Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
• Justice G. D. Dixit never served as acting governor of Madhya Pradesh.

• Justice S.K. Jha is the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court but not a Judge at the Supreme Court of India.
• The other judges listed are both the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and Judges at the Supreme Court of India.

• The Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission was constituted on 1, February 1994.
• It came into existence on February 15, 1994.
• The terms of the office of the State Election Commissioners in the commission are mentioned below :
  

  Name	Tenure
  N.B. Lohani	15.02.1994 – 16.02.2000
  Gopal Sharan Shukla	16.02.2000 – 14.08.2006
  Aditya Vijay Singh	14.08.2006 – 10.12.2010
  Dr. Ajit Raizada	10.12.2010 – 30.09.2013
  R. Parasuram	1.10.2013 – 31.12.2018
  Basant Pratap Singh	1.01.2019 – Onwards

• When this question was asked, Ishwardas Rohani was the speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
• He was in the position from 16 December 2003 to 4 January 2009 and from 7 January 2009 to 5 November 2013.
• Currently, Girish Gautam is the protem speaker of Madhya Pradesh.

• Dr. Sitasharan Sharma was the leader of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly from 2014 to 2018.

• In Madhya Pradesh, there are 230 Legislative Assembly seats in total.
• 35 of these are reserved for people belonging to the Scheduled Castes and 47 for the Scheduled Tribes.

• The Indian constitution states that the Union Cabinet is answerable to the Lok Sabha, while the cabinet of each state is accountable to the legislative assembly of that state.

• In Madhya Pradesh, District Governments began operating on April 1, 1999.
• To give more control to Panchayati Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies, District Planning Committees were created.
• Members of these committees include the minister in charge of the district, the Collector, and the district councilor.

• The Madhya Pradesh Zila Yojana Samiti Adhiniyam was passed on May 19th, 1995.
• This law was created to help with Article 243-ZD of the Constitution of India.

• The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission was set up on November 1, 1956, in accordance with Article 315 and Section 118(3) of the States Reorganization Act, 1956.
• This Commission was previously known as the Madhya Bharat Commission which operated from 1954-1956.

• According to Article 315 of the Indian Constitution, two or more states can decide to share a Public Service Commission.
• If the legislatures in each of those states agree to this, Parliament can pass a law to create a Joint State Public Service Commission for those states.

• In 1997, Arvind Netam, a tribal leader from Madhya Pradesh, left the Congress Party and joined the Bahujan Samaj Party.

• There are 10 revenue zones in Madhya Pradesh. These are : Bhopal, Gwalior, Narmadapuram, Chambal, Indore, Jabalpur, Rewa, Sagar, Shahdol, Ujjain.
• When this question was asked there were two districts in the Chambal division. At present, there are three districts.

Revenue Zone  Districts

• Bhopal – Bhopal, Raisen, Rajgarh, Sehore, Vidisha.
• Gwalior – Ashok Nagar, Shivpuri, Datiya, Guna, Gwalior.
• Narmadapuram – Harda, Hoshangabad, Betul.
• Chambal – Morena, Sheopur, Bhind.
• Indore – Barwani, Burhanpur, Dhar, Indore, Jhabua, Khandwa, Khargone, Alirajpur.
• Jabalpur – Balaghat, Chhindwara, Jabalpur, Katni, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Seoni, Dindori.
• Rewa – Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Singrauli.
• Sagar – Chhatarpur, Damoh, Panna, Sagar, Tikamgarh, Niwari.
• Shahdol – Shahdol, Umaria, Anuppur.
• Ujjain – Dewas, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Ratlam, Shajapur, Ujjain, AgarMalwa.

• In 2008, the Madhya Pradesh Government created two new districts, Alirajpur and Singrauli, on the 17th and 24th of May, respectively.
• In 2013, Agar-Malwa was added as the 51st District of Madhya Pradesh.

• The Gondwana Gantantra Party is not well-known across the country or in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

• Madhya Pradesh is related to all three statements, making option (d) the right choice.

• The Madhya Pradesh Rajkoshiya Uttardayitva and Budget Management Act was passed in 2005 and then amended in 2017.