Which Constitution Amendment Act reduced the voting age from 21 years to 18 years ?

The correct answer is C) 61st Amendment. It lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 by amending Article 326, which governs elections to the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies. The Act was passed in 1988 and came into force in 1989.

• 66th Amendment (1990): It mainly dealt with land laws and added more laws to the Ninth Schedule. It has nothing to do with the franchise.
• 62nd Amendment (1989): It extended the reservation of seats for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and Assemblies, and the nomination of Anglo-Indians, by another ten years. The voting age was not touched.
• 63rd Amendment (1989): It was a Punjab-specific amendment connected to the President's Rule arrangements in that state. It is not about voting rights.

The core concept here is Article 326 and universal adult suffrage. For Mains, this links to the debate on whether age-based eligibility should be revisited, and to the role of youth in democratic participation. The 61st Amendment is an example of a short, single-purpose amendment that changed a basic democratic right.

Trap: Aspirants often pick the amendment numbers they recall from other reforms, such as the 62nd for reservation or the 73rd and 74th for local bodies. Remember the franchise change by its number, not by the year it was passed.