CSE · GS-2Official PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q1Polity · Parliament and State Legislatures · 10 marks · 150 words

English

Discuss the ‘corrupt practices’ for the purpose of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Analyze whether the increase in the assets of the legislators and/or their associates, disproportionate to their known sources of income, would constitute ‘undue influence’ and consequently a corrupt practice.

हिन्दी

जन प्रतिनिधित्व अधिनियम, 1951 के उद्देश्य से ‘भ्रष्ट आचरण’ की विवेचना कीजिए। विश्लेषण कीजिए कि क्या विधायकों एवं/अथवा उनके सहयोगियों की आय के ज्ञात स्रोतों के विपरीत अनुपात में संपत्ति में वृद्धि ‘असम्यक् असर’ सृजित करता है और परिणामतः भ्रष्ट आचरण है।

Text taken verbatim from the commission's published question paper. Transcribed from UPSC’s question paper, CS(M) 2025 (English and Hindi). Source

Polity · Parliament and State Legislatures

Parliament and State Legislatures—structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these.