Explanation
- A
anyone residing in India.
Anyone residing in India includes non-citizens and persons not on any electoral roll. The Representation of the People Act and Article 84 require citizenship and enrolment as an elector. This option is not the key.
- B
a resident of the constituency from which the election is to be contested.
A candidate need not be a resident of the parliamentary constituency from which the poll is contested. Residence of that constituency is not the statutory test for filing a nomination. This option is therefore wrong.
- C
any citizen of India whose name appears in the electoral roll of a constituency.
A nomination for Lok Sabha may be filed by a citizen of India whose name appears on the electoral roll of a constituency (and who meets age and other RPA qualifications). That is the working rule for being an elector eligible to contest. This option is the official key.
- D
any citizen of India.
Citizenship alone is not enough: the person must be an elector, that is, enrolled on a constituency roll, besides other qualifications. Bare citizenship without enrolment does not allow a valid nomination. This option is not the key.
Summary. Official key is (c) any citizen of India whose name appears in the electoral roll of a constituency. Article 84 and the Representation of the People Act, 1951, make enrolment as an elector a condition for contesting Lok Sabha. Mere residence or citizenship without being on a roll is insufficient. The candidate need not live in the seat contested. Only (c) states the nomination rule correctly.
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