Consider the following statements about the safeguards Dakshayani Velayudhan argued for in the Constituent Assembly:
(A) She was a member from Madras.
(B) She asked for all kinds of safeguards for the Harijans.
(C) She said the moral safeguard gives protection to the underdogs of the country.
(D) She refused to accept that seventy million Harijans be considered a minority.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A, C and D only
(A) She was a member from Madras. — Correct. Dakshayani Velayudhan was a member <strong>from Madras</strong>.
(B) She asked for all kinds of safeguards for the Harijans. — Incorrect. This is reversed. She said <strong>what we want is not all kinds of safeguards</strong>.
(C) She said the moral safeguard gives protection to the underdogs of the country. — Correct. She held that the <strong>moral safeguard</strong> protects the underdogs, meaning the removal of social disabilities.
(D) She refused to accept that seventy million Harijans be considered a minority. — Correct. She <strong>refused to believe that seventy million Harijans</strong> were a minority, a view close to Nagappa's.
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