Correct Answer - Option 2 : 60 days
The correct answer is 60 days.
- The Chairman or Speaker can declare the seat vacated if a member has remained absent from all its meetings for a period of 60 days without permission. While calculating the 60 days, the period for which the house is prorogued or adjourned is not counted.
-
Vacation of seats
- Article 101 deals with it.
- Article 101 (4)
- If for a period of sixty days a member of either House of Parliament is without permission of the House absent from all meetings thereof, the House may declare his seat vacant Provided that in computing the said period of sixty days no account shall be taken of any period during which the House is prorogued or is adjourned for more than four consecutive days
-
Article 101
- 101(1) No person shall be a member of both Houses of Parliament and provision shall be made by Parliament by law for the vacation by a person who is chosen a member of both Houses of his seat in one House or the other.
- 101(2) No person shall be a member both of Parliament and of a House of the Legislature of a State and if a person is chosen a member both of Parliament and of a House of the Legislature of a State, then, at the expiration of such period as may be specified in rules made by the President, that person seat in Parliament shall become vacant, unless he has previously resigned his seat in the Legislature of the State.
- 103(3) If a member of either House of Parliament (a) becomes subject to any of the disqualification s mentioned in clause (1) or clause (2) of Article 102, or (b) resigns his seat by writing under his hand addressed to the Chairman or the Speaker.
