Solution:

The minimum age of thirty years was fixed for membership as against twenty-five years for the Lower House.

Article 84 of the Constitution lays down the qualifications for membership of Parliament. A person to be qualified for the membership of the Rajya Sabha should posses the following qualifications:

• he must be a citizen of India and make and subscribe before some person authorized in that behalf by the Election Commission an oath or affirmation according to the form set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule to the Constitution;
  
  he must be not less than 30 years of age;
  
  he must possess such other qualifications as may be prescribed in that behalf by or under any law made by Parliament.