Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Crisis of democratic Order

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

(i) Janata Party government

(b) Mandal Commission

(ii) Integral humanism

(c) Jagjivan Ram

(iii) Chief Justice Of India

(d) A.N. Ray

(iv) Congress for Democracy

 

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (1916-1968): Fulltime RSS worker since 1942; founder member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh; General Secretary and later President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh; initiated the concept of integral humanism.

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 center.

The new party accepted the leadership of Jayaprakash Narayan. Some leaders of Congress who were opposed to the Emergency also joined this new party. Some other Congress leaders also came out and formed a separate party under the leadership of Jagjivan Ram. This party named Congress for Democracy later merged with the Janata Party.

Two developments further added to the tension between the judiciary and the executive. Immediately after the Supreme Court’s decision in 1973 in the Kesavananda Bharati case, a vacancy arose for the post of the Chief Justice of India. It had been a practice to appoint the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court as the Chief Justice. But in 1973, the government set aside the seniority of three judges and appointed Justice A. N. Ray as the Chief Justice of India.