Question

The term of the Vidhana Sabha is?
(A) Four Years
(B) Five Years
(C) Six Years
(D) Seven Years

Answer 1

Hint:India follows a bicameral system at both the centre and state level. The State Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) is the upper house in those states of India that have a bicameral state legislature; the lower house being the State Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha).

Complete answer:
The members of the Vidhan Sabha (State Legislative Council) are elected for a term of 5 years by an electoral college consisting of a citizen of the concerned state above the age of 18 years by means of a single transferable vote.

Each state has a legislative assembly. A state legislature that has one house - State Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) - is a unicameral legislature.
A state legislature that has two houses - the State Legislative assembly and State Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) - is a bicameral legislature. The Vidhan Sabha is the lower house and corresponds to the Lok Sabha while the Vidhan Parishad is the upper house and corresponds to the Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India.

So, the correct answer is an option (B): Five years. The term of the Vidhana Sabha is five years.

Note: Do you know not all states have legislative councils (Vidhana Parishad). As of January 2020, 6 out of 28 states have a State Legislative Council (Vidhana Parishad). These states having bicameral legislature i.e. Vidhana Sabha as well as Vidhana Parishad includes Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.