There are no fixed terms in office, but Parliament can remove the Prime Minister with a vote of no confidence. Parliament is re-elected when the Prime Minister calls a general election.

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There are no fixed terms in office, but Parliament can remove the Prime Minister with a “vote of no confidence.” Parliament is re-elected when the Prime Minister calls a general election.

A	True
B	False
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Britannica Dictionary definition of VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE. [count] : a formal vote by which people (such as the members of a legislature) indicate that they do not support a leader, government, etc. He was forced to resign after a vote of no confidence by the board of directors.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, a prime minister must have the confidence of Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. The term of a prime minister can end before the end of a Lok Sabha’s term, if a simple majority of its members no longer have confidence in him/her, this is called a vote-of-no-confidence.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament or other assembly of elected representatives to give members of parliament (or other such assembly) a chance to register their confidence in a government.

Detailed explanation-4: -The constructive vote of no confidence (German: konstruktives Misstrauensvotum, Spanish: moción de censura constructiva) is a variation on the motion of no confidence that allows a parliament to withdraw confidence from a head of government only if there is a positive majority for a prospective successor.

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