130. (1) The Legislative Assembly of each Province shall be composed of members chosen by direct election.

(2) The election shall be on the basis of adult suffrage that is to say, every person who is not less than twenty-one years of age and is not otherwise disqualified under this Constitution or any Act of the Provincial Legislature on the ground of non-residence, unsoundness of mind, crime or corrupt practice shall be entitled to be registered as a voter at such elections.

(3) Seats shall be reserved for:

(a) the Muslim community, the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (except the Scheduled Tribes in the autonomous districts of Assam) in the Legilative Assembly of every Province.

(b) the Indian Christian community in the Legislative Assemblies of the Provinces of Madras and Bombay: and

(c) the autonomous districts in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Assam according to the scale prescribed in sub-section (6).

(4) (a) The number of seats reserved for any community in the Legislative Assembly of any Province shall bear as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats in that Assembly as the population of the community in the Province bears to the total population of the Province.

Explanation: All the Scheduled Castes in a province shall be deemed to be a single community for the purposes of this clause and so all the Scheduled Tribes in a Province.

(b) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous district in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Assam shall bear to the total number of seats in that Assembly a proportion not less than the population of the province.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in opinion that the Governor of a Province may, if he is of the Anglo-Indian community is not adequately represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Province, nominate such number of members of the community to the Legislative Assembly as he considers appropriate.

(6) The representation of each territorial constituency in the Legislative Assembly of a Province shall be on the basis of the population of that constituency as ascertained at the last preceding census and shall be on a scale of not more than one representative for every lakh of the population:

Provided that the total number of members in the Legislative Assembly of a Province shall in no case be more than three hundred or less than sixty.

(6A) Upon the completion of each decennial census, the representation of the several territorial constituencies in the Legislative Assembly of each Province shall be readjusted by such authority, in such manner, and with effect from such date as the Provincial Legislature may by Act determine:

Provided that such readjustment shall not affect representation to the Legislative Assembly until the dissolution of the then existing Assembly.

(7) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autonomous district of the Province of Assam shall not comprise any area outside that district.

(8) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe in any autonomous district of the Province of Assam shall be eligible for election to the Legislative Assembly of the Province from any constituency of that district except from the constituency comprising the cantonment and municipality of Shillong.

(9) Every Legislative Assembly of every province, unless sooner dissolved. Shall continue for four years from the date appointed for its first meeting and the expiration of the said period of four years shall operate as a dissolution of the Assembly.