RAS question
What is the total number of seats in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha)?
Correct answer: (B) 200.
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has 200 seats, all directly elected from single-member constituencies.
Explanation
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, has a total strength of 200 seats. The official Rajasthan Legislative Assembly website lists the Assembly's party-wise representation under the heading "Total Seats: 200". These 200 seats are directly elected from single-member constituencies. Rajasthan's Assembly strength is not a split figure such as 199 plus a nominated member; the operative total for the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha is simply 200 elected seats. For RAS, the point is less about memorising a number in isolation and more about knowing the basic institutional structure of Rajasthan's state legislature.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) The official Rajasthan Legislative Assembly listing gives the total as 200 seats, and all seats are directly elected, so a 199 plus nominated-member framing is inaccurate.
- (C) A strength of 175 understates the Assembly's size because the official Rajasthan Legislative Assembly site lists Total Seats as 200.
- (D) A strength of 250 overstates the Assembly's size because the official Assembly listing supports a total of 200 seats.
Concept
The Rajasthan polity syllabus covers the structure of the State Legislature. Assembly composition recurs in RAS because it is a basic fact used in questions on elections, representation and state governance.