Representation of the People Acts and Constitutional Posts · UPPCS (Uttar Pradesh)

What the official syllabus says

Main Examination, General Studies II:

Salient features of the Representation of People's Act. Appointment to various Constitutional posts, Powers, functions and their responsibilities.

Allocation of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures; delimitation of constituencies (with the Delimitation Acts)
Preparation of electoral rolls; qualifications for registration as a voter
Election machinery: Chief Electoral Officer, District Election Officer, Electoral Registration Officer

Qualifications and disqualifications for membership; disqualification on conviction (Section 8); Lily Thomas (2013) striking down Section 8(4)
Registration of political parties (Section 29A); contributions and their disclosure
Conduct of elections: nominations, scrutiny, polling, counting; electronic voting machines (Section 61A) and VVPAT
Declaration of assets and criminal antecedents by candidates (Association for Democratic Reforms, 2002; PUCL, 2003); NOTA (PUCL, 2013)
Election expenses and their limits (Section 77); silence period before polling (Section 126)
Corrupt practices (Section 123) and electoral offences
Election disputes: election petitions to the High Court and appeals to the Supreme Court

Articles 324 to 329: superintendence, direction and control of elections; the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023
Model Code of Conduct: nature, enforcement, limits
Reports: Dinesh Goswami Committee (1990), Indrajit Gupta Committee (1998) on state funding, Law Commission reports on electoral reforms
Issues: money power, criminalisation of politics, paid news, funding of parties (the electoral bonds judgment, 2024), simultaneous elections, remote voting for migrants

President (Article 54), Vice-President (Article 66), Prime Minister (Article 75), Governor (Article 155), Chief Minister (Article 164)
Attorney General (Article 76) and Advocate General (Article 165)
Comptroller and Auditor General (Article 148): audit of Union and state accounts; the CAG (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971; removal like a Supreme Court judge
Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners (Article 324)
Chairman and members of the Union Public Service Commission (appointed by the President) and of a State Public Service Commission (appointed by the Governor) (Article 316); functions under Article 320; removal (Article 317)
Finance Commission (Article 280); GST Council (Article 279A)
National Commissions for Scheduled Castes (Article 338), Scheduled Tribes (Article 338A) and Backward Classes (Article 338B); Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities (Article 350B)
Judges of the Supreme Court (Article 124) and High Courts (Article 217)
Safeguards of independence: security of tenure, fixed service conditions, charged expenditure, bars on further employment

General Studies V: the Public Service Commission, Advocate General, auditing, political parties and the State Election Commission of Uttar Pradesh.
Parliament and State Legislatures: the Houses these elections fill.