Consider the following statements in the context of Attorney General of India : 1) The President Shall appoint a person who is qualified as to be appointed a Judge of supreme Court. 2) The Attorney General shall receive such remuneration as the Parliament may determine. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Statement 1 is correct. Under Article 76(1), the President appoints as Attorney General a person qualified to be a Judge of the Supreme Court. Statement 2 is wrong. Under Article 76(3), the Attorney General receives such remuneration as the President determines, not Parliament. Parliament fixes the pay of Supreme Court judges, which is probably the source of the confusion.

So only statement 1 is correct, and the answer is A.

• B is wrong because statement 2 is incorrect.
• C is wrong for the same reason.
• D is wrong because statement 1 is a correct statement of Article 76(1).

The core concept is the office itself. The Attorney General is the government's chief legal adviser under Article 76. He is not a member of the Council of Ministers, holds office at the pleasure of the President, and can speak and take part in Parliament without voting rights under Article 88. For Mains, compare this with the Solicitor General and the Advocate General under Article 165, and discuss whether the dual role of advising the government and appearing for it weakens the independence of the post.

Trap: aspirants borrow the judges' salary rule and assume Parliament fixes the Attorney General's remuneration.