Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The 36th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1975 made Sikkim a full-fledged state of the Union of India.
Statement II: Goa was made a full-fledged state with a state assembly in the year 1987 under the 56th Constitutional Amendment Act.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Both statement I and statement II are true
Statement I: The 36th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1975 made Sikkim a full-fledged state of the Union of India. Correct. After a referendum in April 1975, the 36th Amendment made Sikkim the 22nd state of India from 16 May 1975 and added Article 371F for it. The 35th Amendment of 1974 had made it only an “associate state”.
Statement II: Goa was made a full-fledged state with a state assembly in the year 1987 under the 56th Constitutional Amendment Act. Correct. Goa, a Union Territory with Daman and Diu since its liberation in 1961, became the 25th state on 30 May 1987. The 56th Amendment Act, 1987 added Article 371-I, which provides for its Legislative Assembly of not less than 30 members.