Which of the following are enshrined in the third schedule of the Indian Constitution? a) Form of oath of office for a Minister for the Union. b) Form of oath to be made by the Chief Justice of Supreme Court. c) Form of oath of office for the President of India. d) Form of oath to be made by a Member of Parliament. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

The correct answer is C (a, b, d). The Third Schedule of the Constitution contains the forms of oaths or affirmations for specified constitutional functionaries, so the question is really about which oath forms sit in that Schedule.

Statement (a) is in the Third Schedule: the form of oath for a Union Minister. Statement (b) is also there: the Third Schedule prescribes the oath for Judges of the Supreme Court, which covers the Chief Justice of India. Statement (d) is in it too: the form of oath for a Member of Parliament, which applies to both candidates and sitting members.

Statement (c) is wrong. The President's oath is not in the Third Schedule. It is prescribed in Article 60 itself, and the Vice-President's oath is provided through Article 69 and the Third Schedule, so the President is the odd one out.

The core concept is the separation between provisions placed in the body of the Constitution and those put into schedules. This matters in Mains answers on the constitutional morality of office-holders and the oath-taking framework.

Trap: aspirants assume every high constitutional office oath, including the President's, sits in the Third Schedule, and so pick option D.