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191                     THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                (Part XVI.—Special Provisions Relating to Certain Classes)

              (a) if all the seats in the Legislative Assembly of such State in
       existence on the date of coming into force of the Constitution (Fifty-
       seventh Amendment) Act, 1987 (hereafter in this clause referred to as
       the existing Assembly) are held by members of the Scheduled Tribes, all
       the seats except one;

             (b) in any other case, such number of seats as bears to the total
       number of seats, a proportion not less than the number (as on the said
       date) of members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the existing
       Assembly bears to the total number of seats in the existing Assembly.]
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        [(3B) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (3), until the
re-adjustment, under article 170, takes effect on the basis of the first census
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after the year 2[2026], of the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the
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State of Tripura, the seats which shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes in
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the Legislative Assembly shall be, such number of seats as bears to the total
number of seats, a proportion not less than the number, as on the date of
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coming into force of the Constitution (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992,
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of members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly in
existence on the said date bears to the total number of seats in that Assembly.]
       (4) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous district in the
Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam shall bear to the total number of
seats in that Assembly a proportion not less than the population of the district
bears to the total population of the State.
      (5) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autonomous district
of Assam shall not comprise any area outside that district 3***.
      (6) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any
autonomous district of the State of Assam shall be eligible for election to the
Legislative Assembly of the State from any constituency of that district 3***:
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           [Provided that for elections to the Legislative Assembly of the State of


1. Ins. by the Constitition (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992, s. 2 (w.e.f. 5-12-1992).
2. Subs. by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001, s. 7, for "2000"
   (w.e.f. 21-2-2002).
3. Certain words omitted by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 (81 of 1971),
   s. 71 (w.e.f. 21-1-1972).
4. Ins. by the Constitution (Ninetieth Amendment) Act, 2003, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-9-2003).

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