Select the correct statement/s from the following.
A. The Vice-President shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office.
B. A Vice-President may, by writin

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Select the correct statement/s from the following.
A. The Vice-President shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office.
B. A Vice-President may, by writing under his hand addressed to the President, resign his office.
C. A Vice-President may be removed from his office by a resolution of House of the People passed by a majority of all the then members of the House of People and approved by the Council of States.

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Correct — option (4), Only A, B. Both statements A and B reproduce Article 67 of the Constitution accurately. Article 67(a) provides that the Vice-President 'shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office' — subject to the usual provisos of earlier resignation, removal, or continuing in office until a successor is sworn in — which is exactly statement A. The same clause's first proviso states that the Vice-President 'may, by writing under his hand addressed to the President, resign his office', which is exactly statement B. Statement C, however, inverts the actual constitutional procedure: Article 67(b) provides that the Vice-President may be removed by a resolution of the Council of States (the Rajya Sabha) passed by a majority of all its then members and agreed to by the House of the People (the Lok Sabha) — the resolution must originate in and be passed by the Council of States first, and only then be agreed to by the House of the People, not the other way around as statement C claims. This is not a minor wording slip; the sequence matters constitutionally, because the Vice-President serves as the ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States, and it is fitting that the chamber over which he presides is the one that initiates his removal. Because A and B are accurate and C reverses the two Houses' roles, the correct set is 'Only A, B'.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This selects only statement A, the five-year term provision, and leaves out B — but B is also an accurate statement of Article 67(a)'s first proviso, allowing the Vice-President to resign by a letter addressed to the President. Since B is correct and belongs in the answer, selecting A alone under-counts the correct statements.  (b) This correctly includes B (the resignation provision) but incorrectly includes C, which reverses the actual roles of the two Houses in a removal resolution: the Constitution requires the resolution to be passed by the Council of States and then agreed to by the House of the People, not passed by the House of the People and approved by the Council of States as statement C claims. This option also omits A, the accurate five-year term statement, so it is wrong on both counts.  (c) This correctly includes A (the five-year term) but incorrectly includes C, for the same reason as above — Article 67(b) requires the removal resolution to be passed first by the Council of States and then agreed to by the House of the People, the reverse of what statement C describes. This option also omits B, the accurate resignation-by-letter provision, so it too is wrong on both counts.

Concept: Article 67 of the Constitution of India governs the Vice-President's term of office. Clause (a) fixes a five-year term from the date the Vice-President enters office, subject to three provisos: the Vice-President may resign at any time by writing under his hand addressed to the President; the Vice-President may be removed by the specific procedure in clause (b); and the Vice-President continues in office beyond the five-year term until a successor enters upon office, ensuring the post is never vacant. Clause (b) lays down the removal procedure precisely: a resolution must be passed by the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) by a majority of all its then members, and that resolution must then be agreed to by the House of the People (Lok Sabha); at least fourteen days' notice must be given before such a resolution can be moved. This Rajya-Sabha-first sequence is distinctive — it is the only removal procedure in the Constitution that requires one specific House to initiate the process — and it reflects the Vice-President's constitutional role as the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, since it is fitting that the House he presides over takes the lead in any motion to remove him.

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