Question

The total number of ministers, including the Prime Minister, in the Council of Ministers, shall not exceed 15% of the total strength of the Lok Sabha, the provision was added by the__?
A. 91st Amendment Act of 2003
B. 93rd Amendment Act of 2006
C. 99th Amendment Act of 2015
D. 101st Amendment Act of 2017

Answer 1

Hint:This strengthened the act by adding provisions for disqualification of defectors and barring them from being appointed as ministers for a period of time.

Complete answer:
To make the current law more compelling in managing the successive abandonments, a correction was proposed to the Tenth Schedule in 2003. An advisory group headed by Pranab Mukherjee proposed the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Bill, noticing that the special case given by permitting a split, allowed in passage three of the Schedule, was by and large horribly misused, causing different divisions in different ideological groups. Further, the board noticed, the bait of individual increase played a critical angle in rebellions and brought about political pony trading.[13] The bill was passed in one day by the Lok Sabha on 16 December 2003, and likewise passed by the Rajya Sabha on 18 December. Official assent was acquired on 1 January 2004 and the Constitution (Ninety-First Amendment) Act – 2003 was advised in the Gazette of India on 2 January 2004.

Hence the correct answer is option A.

Note:An Amendment is typically part of a Constitution either federal, provincial or state depending on your country. An Amendment is something added to an existing act or law, or changes the Constitution (law of the land).
Following the recommendations from a number of constitutional bodies, Parliament in the year 2003 passed the Ninety-first Amendment to the Indian Constitution. This helped in strengthening the act by adding provisions for the disqualification of defectors and barring them from being appointed as ministers for a period of time.