RAS question
ST reserved constituencies in Rajasthan Assembly are:
Correct answer: (C) 25.
Rajasthan has 25 Scheduled Tribe reserved constituencies in its 200-seat Legislative Assembly.
Explanation
The Election Commission of India's 2023 Rajasthan Assembly highlights give the constituency break-up as 141 general seats, 34 Scheduled Caste reserved seats and 25 Scheduled Tribe reserved seats, making a total of 200 Assembly constituencies. The question asks specifically for ST reserved constituencies, so the relevant figure is 25. This also explains why 34 is tempting but wrong: it belongs to the SC column, not the ST column. The answer is therefore not derived from a broad estimate of reservation share, but from the official constituency-type table for the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 34 is the Election Commission figure for Scheduled Caste reserved constituencies in Rajasthan, not for Scheduled Tribe reserved constituencies.
- (B) 20 does not appear as the ST reserved constituency count in the Election Commission's Rajasthan Assembly constituency break-up.
- (D) 30 is higher than the official ST figure; the ECI table lists only 25 constituencies under the ST category.
Concept
This tests the Rajasthan polity syllabus area on Assembly composition and reservation of constituencies. It recurs in RAS because seat-category counts are direct, official facts that link electoral administration with state political representation.
