Question

India is known as a parliamentary democracy because ________________.

• A. the President is not a member of the Parliament
• B. the member of Parliament aredirectly elected by the people
• C. the executive is responsible to the Parliament
• D. the powers have been clearly distributed between the Centre and the states.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

the executive is responsible to the Parliament

In a parliamentary form of government the position of the head of the State i.e. the monarch or the President is ceremonial.They do not have any real powers.In this form of government ,the head of the government is the Prime Minister who has all the real powers.Therefore he is called the real executive.

In the Constitution of India Article 75 and Article 163 give evidence of a parliamentary form of government in India.