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PT 365 Polity Lecture Notes

Mar 21, 2025

PT 365 Polity Lecture Notes

Introduction

  • Analysis of PT 365 Polity
  • Under the rights of Vision IAS
  • Annual coverage of current affairs
  • Important points in the PDF are marked
  • 7-8 hours of analysis

Simultaneous Elections

  • In the news: Committee formed by former President
  • General and Assembly elections together
  • Article 82A: Simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies
  • Article 83: Unexpired term, mid-term, and general elections
  • Need for phase-wise elections

State Election Commission

  • Conduct of elections: Panchayati Raj and local bodies
  • Importance of constitutional bodies
  • Constituted by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment
  • Recommendations of the Gadgil Commission
  • Removal process: Like the removal of a judge from the state high court

EVM and VVPAT

  • ADR report
  • Battery-operated, not connected to a plug
  • VVPAT: Voter verifiability
  • First used in Kerala

Model Code of Conduct

  • Conduct rules during elections
  • Non-binding and non-enforceable
  • First implemented in Kerala

Article 329

  • Supreme Court's intervention in the election process
  • Election Petition: In the state high court

Anti-Defection Law

  • 10th Schedule, during Rajiv Gandhi's tenure
  • 52nd Constitutional Amendment Act
  • Speaker's decision can be subject to judicial review

Proportional Representation

  • Lok Sabha election: First-past-the-post system
  • Proportional representation in the President's election

Emergency Provisions

  • National Emergency: Article 352, 358, 359
  • President's Rule: Article 356
  • Financial Emergency

Gram Nyayalaya Act

  • Gram Nyayalaya: Justice administration at the local level
  • Appointment of judicial class

CAA and Citizenship Amendment

  • Four conditions for illegal migrants
  • Foreigners Tribunal

Uniform Civil Code

  • Article 44, DPSP
  • Uniform laws for all

Places of Worship Act

  • Religious places' status to remain as of 1947

Preventive Detention

  • Arrest on suspicion
  • Maximum of 3 months

Zero FIR

  • Report of crime in any region registered

Types of Bail

  • Regular, anticipatory, temporary, default

Other Important Points

  • Administrative relations
  • Panchayati Raj institutions
  • Finance Commission
  • Parliamentary committees

Conclusion

  • This lecture encompasses important administrative and constitutional topics.
  • These topics are extremely important for the examination.

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