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(a) there shall be allotted to Sikkim one seat in the Council of States and one seat in the
House of the People;

(b) the representative of Sikkim in the Council of States shall be elected by the members of
the Sikkim Assembly;

(c) the representative of Sikkim in the House of the People shall be chosen by direct election,
and for this purpose, the whole of Sikkim shall form one parliamentary constituency to be
called the parliamentary constituency for Sikkim:

Provided that the representative of Sikkim in the House of the People in existence at the
commencement of the Constitution (Thirty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1974, shall be elected by
the members of the Sikkim Assembly;

(d) there shall be one general electoral roll for the parliamentary constituency for Sikkim and
every person whose name is for the time being entered in the electoral roll of any
constituency under the Government of Sikkim Act, 1974, shall be entitled to be registered in

the general electoral roll for the parliamentary constituency for Sikkim;

(e) a person shall not be qualified to be the representative of Sikkim in the Council of States
or the House of the People unless he is also qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the Sikkim
Assembly and in the case of any such representative-

(i) clause (a) of article 84 shall apply as if the words "is a citizen of India, and" had been
omitted therefrom;

(ii) clause (3) of article 101 shall apply as if sub-clause (a) had been omitted therefrom;

(iii) sub-clause (d) of clause (1) of article 102 shall apply as if the words "is not a citizen of

India, or" had been omitted therefrom;
(iv) article 103 shall not apply;

(f) every representative of Sikkim in the Council of States or in the House of the People shall
be deemed to be a member of the Council of States or the House of the People, as the case
may be, for all the purposes of this Constitution except as respects the election of the
President or the Vice-President:

Provided that in he case of any such representative, clause (2) of article 101 shall apply as if
for the words "a House of the Legislature of a State", in both the places where they occur,
and for the words "the Legislature of the State", the words "the Sikkim Assembly" had been
substituted;

(g) if a representative of Sikkim, being a member of the Council of States or the House of the

People, becomes subject to any of the disqualifications for being a member of the Sikkim

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