The Indian Independence Act of 1947 made the changes in the position of the Constituent Assembly : A. The Act empowered the Constituent Assembly to abrogate or alter any law made by the British Parliament in relation to India. B. The Constituent Assembly also became a Legislative Body. C. Normally Constituent Assembly was Chaired by Dr. Ravindra Prasad when it met as Constituent as well as Legislative Body. Select the correct statements from the above.
This MPSC previous-year question is drawn from MPSC Group B Combined Pre 2026 (English). It belongs to the Polity section and is reproduced here in English exactly as it appeared in the official Maharashtra Public Service Commission paper, along with the four options, the official Set A answer key and a compact explanation of why the correct option is correct.
Correct answer: A
Explanation
The verified answer here is option A. Under the Indian Independence Act 1947, the Constituent Assembly gained the power to abrogate or alter any law and became a fully sovereign body (A, B). The remaining statements don't fit, so 'only A, B' is correct.
Why this question matters
Questions of this type recur almost every year across MPSC Group B, Group C, PSI and Gazetted Civil Services prelims because polity carries a high, stable weightage in the syllabus. Practising the original paper wording — rather than paraphrased mock questions — is the fastest way to internalise MPSC's option-framing style and the specific way its examiners plant trick choices.
How to attempt this in the exam
Cover the options with your hand and try to answer the question in your own words first. Then reveal the options and pick the one closest to your mental answer. This inversion habit is especially valuable for polity items where three of the four options are designed to be superficially plausible.
Subject-specific tip
Tip for Polity: pin down the Article number, the year of the amendment and the body that performs the action. Most Polity questions can be solved by matching just those three anchors.
Polity in MPSC prelims — the anchor subject
Indian Polity carries the highest weightage-to-effort ratio in every MPSC preliminary paper. Between 12 and 18 questions in a typical Group B, Group C, PSI or Gazetted Civil Services prelim come from the Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy, Parliament, the President, the Supreme Court, the Governor, the Maharashtra state legislature and the three-tier Panchayati Raj system. Because the answers are anchored to specific Article numbers, dates and constitutional bodies, the marks are fully retrievable through disciplined revision.
MPSC's Polity question-framing tends to follow three recurring patterns: (a) Article-to-subject matching — for example matching Article 32 with writs, Article 21A with Right to Education, Article 44 with Uniform Civil Code; (b) chronological ordering of amendments — the 42nd (Socialist / Secular / Integrity), 44th (Right to Property removed), 73rd/74th (Panchayati Raj / Municipalities), 86th (RTE), 101st (GST); and (c) comparative structure questions — Rajya Sabha vs. Lok Sabha powers, Fundamental Rights vs. DPSPs (justiciable vs. non-justiciable), Union list vs. State list vs. Concurrent list.
The most efficient preparation route is to read the Constitution's bare text for Parts III (FRs) and IV (DPSPs), memorise the schedules 1–12 as a single one-page chart, and practise the last 10 years of MPSC Polity PYQs. Our long-form Indian Polity study guide summarises every high-frequency article, key Supreme Court case (Kesavananda Bharati 1973, Maneka Gandhi 1978, Puttaswamy 2017) and every amendment MPSC has asked about since 2014.
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