Reservation of Seats for the Scheduled Castes SCs and Scheduled Tribes STs is provided for in the Lo......

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Reservation of Seats for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) is provided for in the

Lok Sabha
Rajya Sabha
State Legislative Assembly
State Legislative Council

Select the Solution using the codes below.

1 and 3 only

2, 3 and 4 only

1 and 2 only

1, 2, 3 and 4

Explanation:

Statement 2: There is no reservation provision in RS. MPs are elected to RS through the Single transferable vote, implying that votes are first allocated to the most preferred candidate, and then to the next preferred candidate, and so on. This system cannot accommodate the principle of reserving a certain numbers of seats for a particular group.

Statement 4: Same can be extended for the State Legislative Council. S1 and 3: This is common knowledge.