RAS question
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has a total of how many seats?
Correct answer: (B) 200.
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has 200 seats, matching the 200 Assembly constituencies listed for Rajasthan by the Election Commission of India.
Explanation
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has 200 seats. The Election Commission of India's 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election highlights list the state as having 200 constituencies in all: 141 general, 34 Scheduled Caste and 25 Scheduled Tribe constituencies. That supports option B because each seat corresponds to an Assembly constituency. This also matters for RAS: Rajasthan is a unicameral state legislature, so there is no separate Legislative Council to add another elected state chamber. All Assembly seats are directly elected from single-member constituencies, making 200 the relevant figure for the strength of the Vidhan Sabha.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 175 does not match Rajasthan; it is associated with the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, while the ECI Rajasthan highlights give the total as 200 constituencies.
- (C) 230 is not supported by the Rajasthan election highlights, which split the state into 141 general, 34 SC and 25 ST constituencies, totalling 200.
- (D) 250 refers to the maximum strength of the Rajya Sabha, not to the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, whose constituency total is 200.
Concept
This tests the basic structure and strength of Rajasthan's state legislature under Rajasthan Political and Administrative System. It recurs in RAS because Assembly composition, constituency categories and unicameral legislature facts are standard polity anchors.
