Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Politics/Programme/Issue etc.) | List-II (Related Issue etc.) | ||
| (A) | Coalition Politics | (I) | Political upsurge of Dalits |
| (B) | Structural Adjustment Programme | (II) | Reservation for OBCs |
| (C) | Mandal Commission | (III) | Economic restructuring |
| (D) | Bahujan Politics | (IV) | Absence of clear majority by a single party. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) – (IV), (B) – (III), (C) – (II), (D) – (I)
(A) Coalition Politics — this matches (IV) Absence of clear majority by a single party.
(B) Structural Adjustment Programme — this matches (III) Economic restructuring. It is also called the new economic reforms.
(C) Mandal Commission — this matches (II) Reservation for OBCs. It recommended that jobs in central government be reserved for the Other Backward Classes.
(D) Bahujan Politics — this matches (I) Political upsurge of Dalits. The BSP under Kanshi Ram gave political power to the ‘bahujan’.
NCERT (2025-26): “Decline of Congress … What happened after 1989 was the emergence of several parties in such a way that one or two parties did not get most of the votes or seats. This also meant that no single party secured a clear majority of seats in any Lok Sabha election held since 1989 till 2014.… Context of the 1990s … This followed the decision by the new National Front government in 1990, to implement the recommendation of the Mandal Commission that jobs in central government should be reserved for the Other Backward Classes.… Context of the 1990s … This is known as the initiation of the structural adjustment programme or the new economic reforms.… Political fallouts … The 1980s also saw the rise of political organisation of the Dalits. In 1978 the Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) was formed. This organisation was not an ordinary trade union of government employees. It took a strong position in favour of political power to the ‘bahujan’ – the SC, ST, OBC and minorities. It was out of this that the subsequent Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti and later the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) emerged under the leadership of Kanshi Ram.…” |