GS-2Specific Microtheme

Dual Role: Local Constituency Representative vs. National Lawmaker

Mapped under Role and Accountability of Legislators → Topic 06 Parliament and State Legislatures

📝 3 Questions (Sorted Recent First 2025–2013)

Other Microthemes in Role and Accountability of Legislators:

Dual Role: Local Constituency Representative vs. National Lawmaker MPLAD Scheme: Asset Creation, Implementation Deficits, Federal Concerns Disqualification of Legislators: RPA 1951, Criminalization, Immediate Rules Ethics Committees, Codes of Conduct, and Suspension Mechanisms

UPSC Mains Questions on "Dual Role: Local Constituency Representative vs. National Lawmaker" (3)

2019 marks

Individual Parliamentarian’s role as the national lawmaker is on a decline, which inturn, has adversely impacted the quality of debates and their outcome. Discuss.

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2017 marks

‘Simultaneous election to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies will limit theamount of time and money spent in electioneering government’saccountability to the people’ Discuss.

Q3No match yet

2013 marks

The role of individual MPs (Members of Parliament) has diminished over the yearsand as a result healthy constructive debates on policy issues are not usuallywitnessed. How far can Anti-defection law this be attributed to the anti-defection law, which was legislated but with a different intention?

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