Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Political events) | List-II (Year) | ||
| (A) | Congress gave the slogan of Garibi Hatao in elections | (I) | 1974 |
| (B) | Students protest in Gujarat was started | (II) | 1975 |
| (C) | JP led a people’s march to Parliament | (III) | 1971 |
| (D) | After eighteen months of Emergency, the government decided to hold elections | (IV) | 1977 |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) – (III), (B) – (I), (C) – (II), (D) – (IV)
(A) Congress gave the slogan of Garibi Hatao in elections — this matches (III) 1971.
(B) Students protest in Gujarat was started — this matches (I) 1974. The students began their agitation in January 1974.
(C) JP led a people’s march to Parliament — this matches (II) 1975.
(D) After eighteen months of Emergency, the government decided to hold elections — this matches (IV) 1977. The decision came in January 1977.
NCERT (2025-26): “The contest … Yet the new Congress had something that its big opponents lacked – it had an issue, an agenda and a positive slogan. The Grand Alliance did not have a coherent political programme. Indira Gandhi said that the opposition alliance had only one common programme: Indira Hatao (Remove Indira). In contrast to this, she put forward a positive programme captured in the famous slogan: Garibi Hatao (Remove Poverty).… Gujarat and Bihar movements … Students’ protests in Gujarat and Bihar, both of which were Congress ruled States, had far reaching impact on the politics of the two States and national politics. In January 1974 students in Gujarat started an agitation against rising prices of food grains, cooking oil and other essential commodities, and against corruption in high places.… Gujarat and Bihar movements … Alongside the agitation led by Jayaprakash Narayan, the employees of the Railways gave a call for a nationwide strike. This threatened to paralyse the country. In 1975, JP led a peoples’ march to the Parliament. This was one of the largest political rallies ever held in the capital.…”
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