Match List 1 with List 2

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

1- (A)- III, (B)- IV, (C)- II, (D)- I
2- (A)- I, (B)- IV, (C)- III, (D)- II
3- (A)- IV, (B)- I, (C)- III, (D)- II
4- (A)- II, (B)- III, (C)- I, (D)- IV

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The forty-second amendment (1976) was also passed during the Emergency. This amendment consisted of a series of changes in many parts of the Constitution. Among the various changes made by this amendment, one was that the duration of the legislatures in the country was extended from five to six years. This change was not only for the Emergency period, but was intended to be of a permanent nature. Besides this, during an Emergency, elections can be postponed by one year. Thus, effectively, after 1971, elections needed to be held only in 1978; instead of 1976.

The socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia gave a strategy of ‘non-Congressism’. Parties opposed to the Congress realised that the division of their votes kept the Congress in power. Thus parties that were entirely different and disparate in their programmes and ideology got together to form anti-Congress fronts in some states and entered into electoral adjustments of sharing seats in others.

The issue of reservations for ‘other backward classes’ became very controversial in Bihar and following this, the Mandal Commission was appointed by the Janata Party government at the centre.

Chaudhary Charan Singh (1902-1987) was a prominent figure in Indian politics. He served as the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980. Charan Singh was also the founder of the Lok Dal, a political party with a focus on rural issues and the welfare of farmers.