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Article 356 deals with ______________.

A

National emergency

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B

Constitutional emergency

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Financial emergency

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Fundamental Rights during emergency

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Solution

The correct option is B Constitutional emergency
Article 356 deals with the Constitutional emergency. This situation arises when a situation in a state reaches to a place, that it can no longer rule according to the provisions of the constitution.

The President can overrule many provisions of the constitution in such an instance.

For the first time, constitutional emergency was declared in Punjab in 1952.

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