RAS question
How many Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan are reserved for Scheduled Castes?
Correct answer: (C) 4.
Rajasthan has 4 Lok Sabha seats reserved for Scheduled Castes out of its 25 parliamentary constituencies.
Explanation
Rajasthan has 25 Lok Sabha constituencies, and the Chief Electoral Officer, Rajasthan lists four of them with the Scheduled Caste reservation tag: Ganganagar (SC), Bikaner (SC), Bharatpur (SC), and Karoli-Dholpur (SC). Out of Rajasthan's 25 Lok Sabha seats, 4 are reserved for Scheduled Castes. The answer is therefore not based on a broad estimate of population share or on Assembly-seat reservation; it is a direct count of the parliamentary constituency list where the official map page marks the reserved category beside each constituency name.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 6 is too high because the official parliamentary constituency list marks only four Rajasthan Lok Sabha seats with the Scheduled Caste reservation tag.
- (B) 5 overcounts the reserved Lok Sabha seats; the listed SC constituencies are Ganganagar, Bikaner, Bharatpur, and Karoli-Dholpur, making four in all.
- (D) 3 is too few because the official list includes four SC-marked constituencies, not just three.
Concept
This tests reservation of parliamentary constituencies within Rajasthan's political and administrative system. It recurs in RAS because seat distribution and reserved constituencies are core factual elements of Rajasthan polity.