Qualification for Membership of Parliament
A person shall not be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in Parliament unless he—(a) is a citizen of India, and makes and subscribes before some person authorised... an oath or affirmation...; (b) is, in the case of a seat in the Council of States, not less than thirty years of age and, in the case of a seat in the House of the People, not less than twenty-five years of age; and (c) possesses such other qualifications as may be prescribed in that behalf by or under any law made by Parliament.
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This is why you must be at least 25 to contest a Lok Sabha seat but 30 for the Rajya Sabha — a deliberate age differential reflecting the Upper House's designed role as a chamber of relatively greater experience and seniority.
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