Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System

Question:

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

List 1

List 2

(a) Ram Manohar Lohia

(i) Powerful and influential leaders within Congress.

(b) Defection

(ii) Opposed imposition of Hindi and led the anti-Hindi agitations.

(c) C. Natarajan Annadurai

(iii) Elected representative leaves the party on whose symbol he was elected & join another party.

(d) Syndicate

(iv) Founding member of the Congress Socialist Party

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

Ram Manohar Lohia (1910-1967) : Socialist leader and thinker; freedom fighter and among the founders of the Congress Socialist Party; after the split in the parent party, the leader of the Socialist Party and later the Samyukta Socialist Party; Member, Lok Sabha, 1963- 67; founder editor of Mankind and Jan, known for original contribution to a non-European socialist theory; as political leader, best known for sharp attacks on Nehru.

Defection means an elected representative leaves the party on whose symbol he/she was elected and joins another party.

C. Natarajan Annadurai (1909-1969): Chief Minister of Madras (Tamil Nadu) from 1967; a journalist, popular writer, and orator; initially associated with the Justice Party in Madras province; later joined Dravid Kazagham (1934); formed DMK as a political party in 1949; a proponent of Dravid culture, he was opposed to the imposition of Hindi and led the anti-Hindi agitations; supporter of greater autonomy to States.

The term Congress Syndicate was used to refer to a group of powerful and influential leaders within Congress.