CBSE Class 12 Political Science Case Study Questions Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System MCQs

Question. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follows:
Earlier, Lal Bahadur Shastri had resigned from the position of Railway Minister accepting moral responsibility for a major railway accident. Shastri was the country’s Prime Minister from 1964 to 1966. During Shastri’s brief Prime Ministership, the country faced two major challenges. While India was still recovering from the economic implications of the war with China; failed monsoons, drought and serious food crisis presented a grave challenge. As discussed in the previous chapter, the country also faced a war with Pakistan in 1965. Shastri’s famous slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’, symbolised the country’s resolve to face both these challenges. Shastri’s Prime Ministership came to an abrupt end on 10 January, 1966, when he suddenly expired in Tashkent, then in USSR and currently the capital of Uzbekistan. He was there to discuss and sign an agreement with Muhammad Ayub Khan, the then President of Pakistan, to end the war.

Question. What two major crises India faced during Shastri’s tenure?
(a) Political and social crises.
(b) Economic and serious food crises.
(c) War and communalism.
(d) War and political crises.

Answer: B

Question. What was the famous slogan given by Shastri?
(a) “Aya Ram, Gaya Ram”
(b) “Swachha Bharat, Swastha Bharat”
(c) “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Why Shastri resigned from the position of Railway Minister?
(a) Accepting moral responsibility for railway accident.
(b) He was forced to resign.
(c) His party lost elections.
(d) None of the options.

Answer: A

Question. What was the tenure of Shastri as a PM of India?
(a) 1966 to 1970
(b) 1967 to 1970
(c) 1964 to 1966
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follows:
The dramatic nature of the political change would be more apparent to you at the State level. The Congress lost majority in as many as seven States. In two other States, defections prevented it from forming a government. These nine States where the Congress lost power were spread across the country – Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Madras and Kerala. In Madras State (now called Tamil Nadu), a regional party — the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) – came to power by securing a clear majority. The DMK won power after having led a massive anti-Hindi agitation by students against the centre on the issue of imposition of Hindi as the official language. This was the first time, any non-Congress party had secured a majority of its own in any State. In the other eight States, coalition governments consisting of different non-Congress parties were formed. A popular saying was that one could take a train from Delhi to Howrah and not pass through a single Congress ruled State. It was a strange feeling for those who were used to seeing the Congress in power.

Question. On what agenda DMK came into power in Tamil Nadu?
(a) Eradication of poverty.
(b) Agenda against one party dominance.
(c) Promise to increase educational institution.
(d) Against the imposition of Hindi as a national language.

Answer: D

Question. In how many states a coalition government of noncongress parties were formed?
(a) Eight
(b) Seven
(c) Six
(d) Ten

Answer: A

Question. In how many states Congress lost majority?
(a) Five states
(b) Seven states
(c) Nine states
(d) Eleven states

Answer: B

Question. What is the current name of Madras?
(a) Telangana
(b) Chennai
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Study the picture given below and answer the questions that follows:

Question. What was the outcome of these elections labelled as?
(a) The Great Finish
(b) An Extraordinary Finish
(c) Indira, the Iron Lady
(d) The Grand Finish

Answer: D

Question. Who are depicted as the players in the cartoon?
(a) Congress’ leaders
(b) Communist Party of India’s leaders
(c) The then leading opposition figures
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Which party did Indira Gandhi lead in 1971 elections?
(a) Congress (R)
(b) Congress (O)
(c) Congress United
(d) UPA

Answer: A

Question. The cartoon depicts the results of which elections?
(a) The results of 1989 elections
(b) The results of 1971 elections
(c) The results of 1969 elections
(d) The results of 1990 elections

Answer: B

Question. Study the picture given below and answer the questions that follows:

Question. Identify the person wearing garland in winning position.
(a) Sardar Patel
(b) Chaudhary Charan singh
(c) K Kamraj
(d) V V Giri

Answer: D

Question. Who is lying on the ground?
(a) N Sanjeeva Reddy
(b) K. Kamraj
(c) Jay Prakash Narayan
(d) None of the options

Answer: A

Question. What does the cartoon represent?
(a) General elections 1989
(b) Midterm elections 1971
(c) The Presidential elections of 1969
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Why Indira Gandhi in the picture looks pleased?
(a) Because she can now impose emergency in the country.
(b) Because her nominee won.
(c) Because the person won was a relative to her.
(d) All of the options

Answer: B

Question. Read the paragraph given below and answer the questions that follows:
India’s grand old party, the Congress, faced its first major split as the old guard led by party President, S. Nijalingappa expelled Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from the party for “fostering a cult of personality”. The “Syndicate”, as the senior members were called, could not quite come to terms with the fact that the “Gungi Gudiya” (dumb doll)-their snide reference for Indira-had a mind of her own. The break was complete when Indira after proposing N. Sanjeeva Reddy’s name for presidentship asked Congressmen to “vote according to their conscience”. V. V. Giri, the rebel Congress candidate won. When the communal temperature was at its peak in India, the country had a Muslim President and a Muslim Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. After serving as vicepresident to the great Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan for five years, Zakir Hussain, an academic and former vice-chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University, became the philosopher scholar’s successor at Rashtrapati Bhavan in 1967. Hussain, however, had one of the briefest terms as the country’s president as he died less than two years later. He was also the first Indian president to die in office.

Question. Whose name was proposed for president by Indira Gandhi?
(a) V. V. Giri
(b) N Sanjeeva Reddy
(c) Zakir Hussain
(d) Indira Gandhi herself

Answer: B

Question. Who was the vice-president to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan?
(a) V. V. Giri
(b) N Sanjeeva Reddy
(c) Zakir Hussain
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Who was called “Gungi Gudiya”?
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) S. Nijalingappa
(d) None of the options

Answer: A

Question. Who was the first president to die in the office?
(a) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(b) S. Nijalingappa
(c) Zakir Hussain
(d) None of the options

Answer: C