WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1989, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Notes: Tarkunde committee recommended that the minimum age of voting should be 18 years. It also recommended that the election commission of India should be a three member body.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Forty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978, was enacted by the Janata Party which had won the 1977 general elections campaigning on a promise to “restore the Constitution to the condition it was in before the Emergency".

Detailed explanation-4: -This age limit was 21 years until the 61st amendment was introduced to the Constitution in 1988. Q. The voting age in India was lowered from 21 years to 18 years by which Amendment Act of the constitution?

Detailed explanation-5: -What argument was given for lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years in 1989 ? The argument given for lowering the voting age was that “enfranchisement of the youth shall make them more sensible and more creative.”