Arrange the following Prime Ministers in the correct chronological order according to their tenures.
(A) Chandra Sekhar
(B) H D Deve Gowda
(C) VP Singh
(D) I K Gujral
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (A), (B), (D)
(C) VP Singh — December 1989 to November 1990.
(A) Chandra Sekhar — November 1990 to June 1991.
(B) H D Deve Gowda — June 1996 to April 1997.
(D) I K Gujral — April 1997 to March 1998.
NCERT (2025-26): “Alliance politics … Thus, with the elections of 1989, a long phase of coalition politics began in India. Since then, there have been eleven governments at the Centre, all of which have either been coalition governments or minority governments supported by other parties, which did not join the government. In this new phase, any government could be formed only with the participation or support of many regional parties. This applied to the National Front in 1989, the United Front in 1996 and 1997, the BJP-led coalition in 1998, the NDA in 1999, the UPA in 2004 and 2009. However, this trend changed in 2014.…”
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