RAS question
Rajasthan has a unicameral or bicameral legislature?
Correct answer: (D) Unicameral.
Rajasthan has a unicameral legislature, known as the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, with no Legislative Council.
Explanation
Rajasthan's legislature is unicameral: it has only one House, the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The official Rajasthan Legislative Assembly introduction states that, after every state had to establish a legislature with one or two Houses, Rajasthan opted for a unicameral character and its legislature is known as the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. This directly rules out a bicameral arrangement, because a bicameral state legislature would require two Houses: a Legislative Assembly and a Legislative Council. Rajasthan therefore has the Vidhan Sabha as its legislative House and does not have a Vidhan Parishad.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) None of the above is wrong because one listed option, Unicameral, correctly describes Rajasthan's legislature.
- (B) Tricameral is wrong because the question concerns one-House or two-House legislatures, and Rajasthan opted for a unicameral legislature.
- (C) Bicameral is wrong because Rajasthan does not have the two-House structure implied by a Legislative Council; it opted for a unicameral legislature.
Concept
This tests the State Legislature part of Rajasthan polity: whether the state has one House or two. It recurs in RAS because questions on Vidhan Sabha, Vidhan Parishad and state constitutional structure are direct, high-frequency polity facts.