Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Era of one Party Dominance

Question:

Match the following leaders in List 1 with the political parties with which they were associated in List 2:

List 1- Leaders

List 2- Political parties

(a) P.C. Joshi

(i) Bharatiya Jana Sangh

(b) S.M. Joshi

(ii) Communist Party of India

(c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(iii) Socialist party

(d) Balraj Madhok

(iv) Congress Party

Options:

(a)- ii, (b)- iii, (c)- iv, (d) i

(a)- ii, (b)- iii, (c)- i, (d) iv

(a)- iii, (b)- ii, (c)- iv, (d) i

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- iii, (d) i

Correct Answer:

(a)- ii, (b)- iii, (c)- iv, (d) i

Explanation:

Political leaders in India after partition and the parties with which they were associated:

E.M.S. Namboodiripad, P.C. Joshi, Ajay Ghosh and P. Sundarraya were among the notable leaders of the Communist Party of India.

Acharya Narendra Dev, Rammanohar Lohia, and S.M. Joshi were among the leaders of the Socialist parties.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a scholar of Islam; freedom fighter and Congress leader.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Balraj Madhok were important leaders of Bhartiya Jana Sangha.