Question

In India the minimum age of voting was 21 years till the year _______________.
A. 1988
B. 1976
C. 1989
D. 1990

Answer 1

Hint:The minimum voting age is the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections. Earlier, the minimum voting age of citizens in India was twenty - one

Complete answer: In the given question, we have to find out which of the options includes the year in which the minimum age of voting in India was not twenty – one for the first time in history.Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), '1988', refers to the year in which the sixty first amendment act was passed, aka the Constitution Amendment Act of 1988, which changed the minimum voting age in India from 21 years to 18 years.
Therefore, option (a.) is correct as 1988 was the first year when the minimum voting age changed from 21 in India.
Option (b.), ‘1976', refers to a year when the minimum voting age was still 21 years in India.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect.
Option (c.), ‘1989', refers to the year when the minimum voting age was 18 years in India for the second year.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as it was not the first year in which the minimum age of voting in India was not twenty – one.
Option (d.), ‘1990', refers to the year when the minimum voting age was 18 years in India for the third year.
Therefore, option (c.) is also incorrect as it was not the first year in which the minimum age of voting in India was not twenty – one.

Note: In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the sixty first amendment act was passed, aka the Constitution Amendment Act of 1988. The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years.