The provisions for the Scheduled Castes shall not be altered, amended or abrogated except in the following manner:Any amendment or abrogation of Section IV of Article II or any part thereof relating to the Scheduled Castes shall only be made by a Resolution passed in the manner prescribed below by the more Popular Chamber of the Union Legislature:
(i) Any proposal for amendment or abrogation shall be initiated in the form of a Resolution in the more Popular Chamber of the Union Legislature.
(ii) No such Resolution shall be moved—
(a) Unless 25 years have elapsed after the Constitution has come into operation and has been worked; and
(b) Unless six months’ notice has been given to the House by the mover of his intention to move such a Resolution.
(iii) On the passing of such a Resolution, the Legislature shall be dissolved and a new election held.
(iv) The original Resolution in the form in which it was passed by the previous Legislature shall be moved afresh in the same House of the newly elected Union Legislature.
(v) The Resolution shall not be deemed to have been carried unless it is passed by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the House and also two-thirds of members of the Scheduled Castes who have been returned through separate electorates.