Which of the following principle is not a part of Directive Principles of the State Policy stated in the Constitution of India ?
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: C
Explanation
The verified answer here is option C. The right to assemble peacefully and without arms is a Fundamental Right under Article 19, not a Directive Principle. So among the options, that assembly principle is the one that does NOT belong to the DPSP.
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
Underline the anchor phrase in the question stem — the specific date, article, formula or place name that the question hinges on. Now scan the four options for the one that exactly matches that anchor. If two options match, look for the second anchor — MPSC almost always plants two verifiable anchors in every polity question.
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.
Constitutional questions in the MPSC PYQ set
Every Polity item in an MPSC paper eventually reduces to one of five decision axes: (1) which Article, (2) which amendment, (3) which body, (4) which case, or (5) which schedule. Once an aspirant internalises those five axes, even unseen questions can be attempted at 60-percent-plus accuracy by process of elimination. Our editorial team categorises each PYQ by the primary axis so aspirants can drill along the axis they find weakest — e.g. Ambedkar quotes and constituent-assembly landmarks belong to the 'landmark event' axis; the Basic Structure Doctrine belongs to the 'case law' axis.
Recurring high-yield topics in the MPSC set (based on our tag frequency across 5,000+ historical questions) include: the emergency provisions (Article 352 / 356 / 360), the amendment procedure (Article 368), the President's election (Article 54 with proportional representation via single transferable vote), the Speaker of Lok Sabha vs. Chairman of Rajya Sabha, the Public Accounts Committee vs. the Estimates Committee, and the National Development Council. The 73rd and 74th amendments, the schedules that list the languages (8th), the anti-defection provisions (10th) and the tribal areas (5th / 6th) are also perennial.
Sit with the Constitution of India bare act, our Indian Polity study guide and this question — three tabs open on the same screen. That habit alone lifts most aspirants by one full standard-deviation on the mock-test score distribution.
Source and editorial process
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