Question

Match List-I with List-II correctly and choose the correct answer from the codes given below :

List-I	List-II
1. S. Nijalingappa	(i) Chief Minister of Madras (Tamil Nadu)
2. K. Kamaraj	(ii) Chief Minister of Mysore (Karnataka)
3. Gaya Lal	(iii) Chief Minister of Bihar
4. Karpoori Thakur	(iv) Member of Legislative Assembly of Haryana

Codes :

• A. 1-(ii), 2-(i), 3-(iv), 4-(iii)
• B. 1-(iii), 2-(i), 3-(iv), 4-(ii)
• C. 1-(iv), 2-(iii), 3-(ii), 4-(i)
• D. 1-(i), 2-(ii), 3-(iii), 4-(iv)

Hint:

Nijalingappa was CM of Mysore, Kamaraj of Madras, Gaya Lal an MLA of Haryana and Karpoori Thakur CM of Bihar.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Recall the facts:
The list matches four political leaders with the offices they held in the 1960s. All four names come from the period of the 1967 elections and the Congress split in NCERT.

Step 2: Match the leaders:
1. S. Nijalingappa was Chief Minister of Mysore (now Karnataka) and later Congress President, so 1 matches (ii).
2. K. Kamaraj was Chief Minister of Madras (now Tamil Nadu) and later Congress President, so 2 matches (i).
3. Gaya Lal was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Haryana. He changed his party three times in one fortnight in 1967, which gave the phrase Aya Ram Gaya Ram. So 3 matches (iv).
4. Karpoori Thakur was Chief Minister of Bihar, so 4 matches (iii).

Step 3: Pick the code:
The correct code is 1-(ii), 2-(i), 3-(iv), 4-(iii). This is option (A).

Step 4: Why the other options are wrong:
Option (B) gives Nijalingappa as Chief Minister of Bihar and Karpoori Thakur as Mysore, which is wrong.
Option (C) puts Nijalingappa as an MLA of Haryana and Kamaraj as Chief Minister of Bihar, which is wrong.
Option (D) matches the lists in simple order and has Gaya Lal as Chief Minister of Bihar, which is wrong.

Final Answer:
The correct matching is 1-(ii), 2-(i), 3-(iv), 4-(iii), so option (A) is right.