Arrange the following political incidents in chronological order:

(A) Anandpur Sahib Resolution
(B) Assassination of Indira Gandhi
(C) The great famine in Mizo hills
(D) Creation of Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura states

CDAB

The correct answer is Option 4 - CDAB

(C) The great famine in Mizo hills - 1959

(D) Creation of Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura states - 1972

(A) Anandpur Sahib Resolution - 1973

(B) Assassination of Indira Gandhi - 1984

EXPLANATION:

After Independence, the Mizo Hills area was made an autonomous district within Assam. Some Mizos believed that they were never a part of British India and therefore did not belong to the Indian Union. But the movement for secession gained popular support after the Assam government failed to respond adequately to the great famine of 1959 in Mizo hills. The Mizos’ anger led to the formation of the Mizo National Front (MNF) under the leadership of Laldenga.

Another major reorganisation of states took place in the northeast in 1972. Meghalaya was carved out of Assam in 1972. Manipur and Tripura too emerged as separate states in the same year. The states of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh came into being in 1987. Nagaland had become a state much earlier in 1963.

During the 1970s a section of Akalis began to demand political autonomy for the region. This was reflected in a resolution passed at their conference at Anandpur Sahib in 1973. The Anandpur Sahib Resolution asserted regional autonomy and wanted to redefine centre-state relationship in the country. The resolution also spoke of the aspirations of the Sikh qaum (community or nation) and declared its goal as attaining the bolbala (dominance or hegemony) of the Sikhs. The Resolution was a plea for strengthening federalism in India.

On October 31, 1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was tragically assassinated outside her residence by her own bodyguards, both of whom were Sikhs seeking vengeance for 'Operation Blue Star'.