Read the passage and answer the question:

Sir, there is a lot of talk about minorities. Who are the real minorities? Not the Hindus in the so- called Pakistan provinces, not the Sikhs, not even the Muslims. No, the real minorities are the masses of this country. These people are so depressed and oppressed and suppressed till now that they are not able to take advantage of the ordinary civil rights.

According to the speech, the speaker is urging the Constituent Assembly to interpret minorities in ______.

Economic terms

The correct answer is Option (3) → Economic terms

According to the speech, the speaker is urging the Constituent Assembly to interpret minorities in Economic terms.

The speaker of the paragraph is N.G. Ranga. In the constituent assembly he had urged that the term minorities be interpreted in economic terms.

While welcoming the Objectives Resolution, N.G. Ranga, a socialist who had been a leader of the peasant movement, urged that the term minorities be interpreted in economic terms. The real minorities for Ranga were the poor and the downtrodden. He welcomed the legal rights the Constitution was granting to each individual but pointed to its limits. In his opinion it was meaningless for the poor people in the villages to know that they now had the fundamental right to live, and to have full employment, or that they could have their meetings, their conferences, their associations and various other civil liberties.