CBSE Class 12 Political Science Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System MCQs Set B

Question. Whom would you like to identify the slogan ‘Indira Hatao’ with?
(a) Syndicate
(b) Karpoori Thakur
(c) V. V. Giri
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose

Answer : A

Question. Why the results of general elections 1967 were called ‘political earthquake’?
(a) Because congress lost all the seats
(b) The elections were not at all successful
(c) The popularity of Congress had reduced by a large scale
(d) None of the above

Answer : C

Question. The Syndicate wanted Indira Gandhi to act as a:
(a) strong leader
(b) puppet U
(c) financial backup
(d) face of the country

Answer : B

Question. …………………….. was unanimously chosen as the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party after the death of Nehru.
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Morarji Desai
(d) Natarajan Annadurai

Answer : A

Question. In General Elections 1971 which party was supported by the majority of the voters?
(a) Congress (O)
(b) Congress (R)
(c) Congress
(d) UPA

Answer : B

Question. Whose name was proposed by the syndicate for the Presidential elections 1969?
(a) K Kamraj
(b) V V Giri
(c) N. Sanjeeva Reddy
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Who gave slogan “Garibi Hatao”?
(a) Lal Bahadur Sashtri
(b) Indira Gandhi
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) None of the above

Answer : B

Question. The Grand Alliance of opposition of 1971 :
(a) got a combined tally of seats that was less than 40.
(b) had a clear ideological programme.
(c) had a grand finish in the 1970 elections.
(d) proved to be a great success.

Answer : A

Question. Whom would you like to identify the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ with?
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Syndicate
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(d) Nehru

Answer : C

Question. The slogan of ‘garibi hatao’ was used before the
(a) 1952 elections
(b) 1967 elections
(c) 1971 elections
(d) 1977 elections

Answer : C

Question. The era of coalition government began in India in
(a) 1971.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1967.

Answer : C

Question. The fifth general election to Lok Sabha were held in _______.
(a) October 1970
(b) November 1970
(c) January 1971
(d) February 1971

Answer : C

Question. The policy initiatives of Mrs.Indira Gandhi’s government did not include
(a) abolition of the privy purse
(b) nationalisation of banks
(c) nuclear tests
(d) ban on nuclear tests

Answer : D

Question. The factional rivalry between the Syndicate and Indira Gandhi came in the open
(a) Presidential Election, 1969
(b) Parliamentary Election, 1969
(c) State Election, 1969
(d) None of the above

Answer : A

Question. When Indira Gandhi recommended dissolution of Lok Sabha?
(a) December 1971
(b) November 1970
(c) December 1970
(d) None of the above

Answer : C

Question. The economic situation in 1967 triggered off:
(a) Price rise
(b) Price fall
(c) Economic progress
(d) Military rise

Answer : A

Question. In the decade of 1960’s, the Congress Party under the leadership of Indira Gandhi was affected by:
(a) Violence
(b) Defection
(c) Internal conflicts
(d) Censorship

Answer : C

Question. When did congress party split into two groups?
(a) 1969
(b) 1979
(c) 1959
(d) 1960

Answer : A

Question. Indira Gandhi got the Congress Working Committee to adopt a Ten-Point Programme in ______
(a) April 1967
(b) May 1967
(c) June 1967
(d) July 1967

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following statements about the Grand Alliance of 1971 is correct?
The Grand Alliance _________
(a) was formed by non-Communist non-Congress parties.
(b) had a clean political and ideological programme.
(c) was formed by all non-Congress parties
(d) had motive to make party

Answer : A

Question. The use of the English language was strongly opposed by the
(a) Gulzari Lal Nanda
(b) J. L. Nehru
(c) Charan Singh
(d) Karpoori Thakur

Answer : D

Question. In 1971 General Election the opposition parties formed an alliance against congress. Identify the alliance.
(a) National DemocraticAlliance
(b) Great Alliance
(c) GrandAlliance
(d) United Progressive Alliance

Answer : C

Question. After the death of Shastri, there was an intense competition between Indira Gandhi and
(a) Ram Manohar Lohia
(b) K. Kamraj.
(c) Morarji Desai.
(d) Karpoori Thakur.

Answer : C

Question. Shastri was the country’s Prime Minister from _____.
(a) 1962 to 1965
(b) 1964 to 1966
(c) 1962 to 1967
(d) 1964 to 1969

Answer : B

Question. Which period of Indian politics was referred to as “dangerous decade”?
(a) 1970s
(b) 1950s
(c) 1980s
(d) 1960s

Answer : D

Question. What was the motto of Grand Alliance?
(a) Garibi Hatao
(b) Economy Badhao
(c) Corruption Hatao
(d) Indira Hatao

Answer : D

Question. The ………………….. had played a role in the installation of Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister by ensuring her election as the leader of the Parliamentary Party.
(a) Constituent Assembly
(b) Syndicate
(c) Opposition
(d) Economic conditions

Answer : B

Question. Who was the founder of the Congress Socialist Party?
(a) C. Natarajan Amadurai
(b) K. Kamraj
(c) Ram Manohar Lohia
(d) S. Nijalingappa

Answer : C

Question. The socialist leader who gave the strategy ‘non-Congressism’ was
(a) Giani Zail Singh.
(b) V.V. Giri.
(c) Ram Manohar Lohia.
(d) V.P. Singh.

Answer : C

Question. In the Presidential Election of 1969 one of the following leaders contested as the official candidate of congress. Identify the leader.
(a) N.Sanjeeva Reddy.
(b) V.V.Giri
(c) Moraiji Deasi
(d) Charan Singh

Answer : A

Question. For how many years Lal Bahadur Sashtri remained cabinet minister prior becoming the PM?
(a) four
(b) three
(c) five
(d) ten

Answer : D

Question. Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru passed away in May:
(a) 1954
(b) 1964
(c) 1974
(d) 1984

Answer : B

Question. When Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru passed away, at that time Congress President was?
(a) K. Kamraj
(b) Lai Bahadur Shastri
(c) S.K. Patil
(d) Morarji Desai

Answer : A

Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Question. Assertion: The roots of the extraordinary success of the Congress party go back to the legacy of the freedom struggle.
Reason: This was similar to the dominance the African National Congress has enjoyed in South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Answer : B

Question. Assertion: Congress accommodated the revolutionary and pacifist, conservative and radical, extremist and moderate and the right, left and all shades of the centre.
Reason: All these members had differences in deciding the party policies and launching freedom struggle.
Answer : C

Question. Assertion: Our leaders were conscious of the critical role of politics in any democracy.
Reason: They did not see politics as a problem; they saw it as a way of solving the problems.
Answer : A

Question. Assertion: This coalition-like character of the Congress gave it an unusual strength.
Reason: Congress acted as an extremist as far as coalition politics is concerned and handled all the issues arbitrarily.
Answer : C

Question. Assertion: What distinguished the dominance of the Congress party in India from all the other cases was it happened under democratic conditions.
Reason: Many parties contested elections in conditions of free and fair elections and yet the Congress managed to win election after election.
Answer : A

Question. Assertion: The Communists failed to generate popular support for their position and were crushed by the armed forces.
Reason: This forced them to rethink their position. In 1951 the Communist Party abandoned the path of violent revolution and decided to participate in the approaching general elections.
Answer : A

Question. Assertion: It was not just the size of the country and the electorate that made this election unusual. The first general election was also the first big test of democracy in a poor and illiterate country.
Reason: At that time there were 17 crores eligible voters, who had to elect about 3,200 MLAs and 489 Members of Lok Sabha. Yet, the elections were conducted successfully.
Answer : A

Question. Assertion: The Indian National Congress was expected to lose this election.
Reason: The Congress party, as it was popularly known, had inherited the legacy of the national movement.
Answer : C

Question. Assertion: Congress evolved from its origins in 1785 as a pressure group for the newly educated, professional and commercial classes to a mass movement in the twentieth century.
Reason: Thus the Congress began as a party dominated by the English speaking, upper caste, upper middle-class and urban elite.
Answer : D

Question. Assertion: The factions took different ideological positions making the Congress appear as a grand centrist party.
Reason: The Bhartiya Jana Sangh called for a reunion of India and Pakistan in Akhand Bharat. The party was in forefront of the agitation to replace English with Hindi as the official language of India and was also opposed to the granting of concessions to religious and cultural minorities.
Answer : B

Question. Assertion: The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was formed in 1986 with Shyama Prasad Mukherjee as its Founder-President.
Reason: It emphasized the idea of one country, one culture and one nation and believed that the country could become modern, progressive and strong on the basis of Indian culture and traditions.
Answer : D

Question. Assertion: The elections had to be postponed twice and finally held from October 1951 to February 1952.
Reason: But this election is referred to as the 1951 election since most parts of the country voted in January 1951.
Answer : C