RAS question
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly first met in which year?
Correct answer: (D) 1952.
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly first met in 1952, with its first sitting taking place on 29 March 1952.
Explanation
The answer is 1952 because the question asks about the first meeting of the elected Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, not the earlier political formation of the state. The official Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Secretariat RTI manual states that, after the general elections, the first Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan was formed on 23 February 1952 and its first sitting took place on 29 March 1952. That matches the standard explanation: India’s first general elections produced the first elected Assembly, and the Assembly met in 1952. The date also helps separate this fact from nearby milestones in Rajasthan’s integration and later reorganisation, which are common traps in chronology questions.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 1956 relates to States Reorganisation and the later merger of Ajmer into the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, not the first meeting of the Assembly.
- (B) 1962 belongs to a later general-election cycle, while the official Assembly manual places the first sitting on 29 March 1952.
- (C) 1949 marks Rajasthan’s formation phase, but the elected Assembly was formed only after the general elections and first sat in 1952.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan polity through State Legislature chronology: state formation, first elected Assembly and reorganisation are close but distinct milestones. It recurs in RAS because these dates are easy to confuse in Rajasthan political and administrative history.