Q100.
Consider the following statements in respect of election to the President of India: 1. The members nominated to either House of the Parliament or the Legislative Assemblies of States are also eligible to be included in the Electoral College. 2. Higher the number of elective Assembly seats, higher is the value of vote of each MLA of that State. 3. The value of vote of each MLA of Madhya Pradesh is greater than that of Kerala. 4. The value of vote of each MLA of Puducherry is higher than that of Arunachal Pradesh because the ratio of total population to total number of elective seats in Puducherry is greater as compared to Arunachal Pradesh How many of the above statements are correct?
Answer
A
Explanation
1 is not correct: The President is elected not by the people but by members of college consisting of: the elected members of both the Houses of the elected members of the legislative assemblies of states (MLAs); and the elected members of the legislative assemblies of Union Territories of Delhi and Puducherry nominated MPs and MLAs are not included in the college. 2 is not correct: Every elected member of legislative assembly of a state have as many votes as there are multiples of one in the quotient obtained by dividing the of the state by the total number of the members of the assembly. This can be as: of the vote of an MLA of a state = Total of the state/(1000 x total number of elected in the state legislative assembly). From the it is clear that higher the number of seats in legislative assembly, lower the value of the vote of MLA of that state (as the number of seats forms the Constitution (Eighty-fourth) Amendment Act, 2001 that until the relevant population figures for first census to be taken after the year 2026 have published, the population of the States for the of calculation of value of votes for the Election shall mean the population as at the 1971-census. the basis of the above formula, the value of a vote of MLA is given for the following states and union Madhya Pradesh – 131, 2. Kerala – 152, 3. Arunachal – 8, 4. Puducherry - 16 statement 3 is not correct and statement 4 is SECTION of Questions Section-wise 2 5 14 15% 16 13 3% 6 6% 3 3 14 14% 6 3 15 3% 3% 100