polity hard true/false

The Indian Constitution is described as 'federal with a strong unitary bias' because it contains more unitary features than federal features.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: False

India has both federal (written Constitution, division of powers, independent judiciary, bicameralism) and unitary features (single citizenship, strong Centre, All India Services, emergency provisions, Governor's role, integrated judiciary, Parliament's power to reorganize States). 'Unitary bias' means Centre has overriding powers in crises, not that unitary features outnumber federal ones. Balance tilts to Centre for national unity.

Topic Federal Relations - Unitary Features
Exam Relevance Conceptual federalism question critical for UPSC Mains and advanced SSC exams

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