Consider the following statements: The Constitution of India provides that 1. the Legislative Assembly of each State shall consist of not more than 450 members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the State. 2. a person shall not b

examrobotsa's picture

Submitted by examrobotsa on

Q: 100 (IAS/2008)
Consider the following statements: The Constitution of India provides that
1. the Legislative Assembly of each State shall consist of not more than 450 members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the State.
2. a person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the Legislative Assembly of a State if he/she is less than 25 years of age.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

question_subject: 

Polity

question_exam: 

IAS

stats: 

0,111,84,11,111,56,17

keywords: 

{'legislative assembly': [1, 0, 0, 1], 'territorial constituencies': [0, 0, 1, 1], 'constitution': [39, 3, 11, 39], 'direct election': [0, 0, 2, 2], 'members': [37, 11, 44, 71], 'seat': [2, 0, 2, 1], 'india': [8, 1, 7, 13]}

The correct answer is option 2, indicating that only statement 2 is accurate. Statement 1 is not correct as the Constitution of India specifies that a Legislative Assembly should comprise of not more than 500, not 450, members chosen by direct vote via territorial constituencies within the state. Therefore, due to this discrepancy, the first statement stands incorrect.

Statement 2 is correct, as the Indian Constitution indeed stipulates that a person must be at least 25 years old to be eligible for a seat in a State Legislative Assembly. In other words, one must have attained the age of 25 in order to qualify for election to a Legislative Assembly.

So, option 2, "2 only" is the accurate answer, which states that only the second condition is valid as per the Indian Constitution.