Section 12
Provisions as to Legislative Assemblies.
The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000
About this Act
An Act to provide for the reorganisation of the existing State of Madhya Pradesh and for matters connected therewith.
(1) The number of seats as on the appointed day in
the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh shall be two hundred and
thirty and ninety respectively.
(2) In the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), under heading “I. States”,—
(a) entries 5 to 25 shall be renumbered as entries 6 to 26 respectively;
(b) after entry 4, the following entry shall be inserted, namely :—
"1 5
5. Chhattisgarh...90.";
(c) in entry 13, as so renumbered, for the figures "320", the figures "230" shall be substituted.
(2) In the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950), under heading “I. States”,—
(a) entries 5 to 25 shall be renumbered as entries 6 to 26 respectively;
(b) after entry 4, the following entry shall be inserted, namely :—
"1 5
5. Chhattisgarh...90.";
(c) in entry 13, as so renumbered, for the figures "320", the figures "230" shall be substituted.