1977 Elections & the End of Emergency

Q.

Match List I (organisations and struggles) with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

	List I		List II
1.	Congress Party	Α.	National Democratic Alliance
2.	Bharatiya Janata Party	Β.	State party
3.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	C.	United Progressive Alliance
4.	Telugu Desam party	D.	Left Front

	1	2	3	4
(a)	C	A	B	D
(b)	C	D	A	B
(c)	C	A	D	B
(d)	D	C	A	B

Q. Which party won the most number of votes in the 1977 election?

1. The Forward Bloc
2. The Bharatiya Lok Dal
3. The Indian National Congress
4. The Janata Party

Q.

Identify the challenges to democracy in the following descriptions. Also suggest policy/institutional mechanism to deepen democracy in the given situations:

• Following a High Court directive a temple in Orissa that had separate entry doors for dalits and non-dalits allowed entry for all from the same door.

• A large number of farmers are committing suicide in different states of India.

• Following allegation of killing of three civilians in Gandwara in a fake encounter by Jammu and Kashmir police, an enquiry has been ordered.

Q. When did Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India?

1. 1950
2. 1960
3. 1966
4. 1970

Q. When was the emergency declared in India withdrawn?

1. 1975
2. 1976
3. 1977
4. 1978

Q. I am the only President of India to be elected with the support of all parties. Who am I?

1. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
2. Morarji Desai
3. Indira Gandhi
4. J B Kripalani

Q. Who became the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India?

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Morarji Desai
3. Indira Gandhi
4. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Q. Indira Gandhi called for immediate elections in 1977, after the Emergency was withdrawn.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which of the following parties formed the Janata Party alliance?

1. Swatantra Party
2. Bharatiya Jan Sangh
3. Socialist Party
4. Communist Party

Q. When did the Allahabad High Court gave verdict against Indira Gandhi?

1. 1977
2. 1974
3. 1976
4. 1975

Q. Who was unanimously elected as the speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26th March, 1977?

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
3. Indira Gandhi
4. V P Singh

Q.

Discuss briefly about the major political parties in india ?

Q. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was sworn in as the sixth President of India in 1977.

1. True
2. False

Q. 'X' served as the Prime Minister of India for around fifteen years. This individual was at the heart of the 21 months of Press censorship in the country between 1975 and 1977. Who is 'X'?

1. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2. L K Advani
3. Indira Gandhi
4. R K Narayan

Q. The incidents happened during the emergency created a negative opinion about the Congress Party in the public's eyes.
Identify those incidents.

1. Censorship of the press
2. Arrests of thousands of people
3. Lok Sabha Elections in 1976
4. Violation of fundamental rights

Q. Which was the major opposition party in the Lok Sabha during UPA government ?

Q. I was an Indian independence activist served between 1977 and 1979 as the 4th Prime Minister of India. I have led the government formed by the Janata Party.
Who am I?

1. Indira Gandhi
2. Morarji Desai
3. Rajiv Gandhi
4. Jawaharlal Nehru

Q.

Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding the 1975 Emergency declaration in India?

1. It was withdrawn in the year 1977.
2. Indira Gandhi called for immediate elections post its withdrawal.
3. The media was censored and the constitutional rights were curbed.
4. Congress won in the post-Emergency Lok Sabha election.

Q. The Emergency imposed on the country gave a strong reason for major political parties to come together and fight against the Indian National Congress, to prevent India from sliding into single party democracy and end the historic electoral victory of Congress.
Which parties came together and formed the Janata Party alliance?

1. Bharatiya Lok Dal
2. Swatantra Party
3. Indian National Congress
4. Socialist Party

Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding the 1975 Emergency declaration in India?

1. It was withdrawn in the year 1977.
2. Indira Gandhi called for immediate elections post its withdrawal.
3. The media was censored and the constitutional rights were curbed.
4. Congress won in the post-Emergency Lok Sabha election.

Q. what were the recent effort taken by the government of india to reform political parties? explain briefly

Q. Parties like the Indian National Congress (Organisation), Swatantra Party, Bharatiya Lok Dal, and the Socialist Party merged to formed the alliance.

1. Forward Bloc Party
2. Janata Party
3. Bharatiya Janata

Q. What is the criteria for a party to become a national level political organisation ? Check that its political organisation and not political party.

Q. Identify the states where the Janata Party emerged victorious in the 1977 election.

1. Karnataka
2. Rajasthan
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Bihar
5. Punjab
6. Uttar Pradesh
7. Tamil Nadu
8. Himachal Pradesh
9. Haryana
10. Odisha

Q.

Match List I (organisations and struggles) with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

	List I		List II
1.	Congress Party	Α.	National Democratic Alliance
2.	Bharatiya Janata Party	Β.	State party
3.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	C.	United Progressive Alliance
4.	Telugu Desam party	D.	Left Front

	1	2	3	4
(a)	C	A	B	D
(b)	C	D	A	B
(c)	C	A	D	B
(d)	D	C	A	B

Q. Article 'X' gave extensive powers to the Central Government to assert its authority over a state. The ruling parties often misused it at the Centre, who used it as a pretext to dissolve state governments ruled by political opponents.
What is 'X'?

1. Article 20
2. Article 356
3. Article 300
4. Article 400

Q. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was sworn in as the sixth President of India in 1977.

1. True
2. False

Q. Who was unanimously elected as the speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26th March, 1977?

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
3. Indira Gandhi
4. V P Singh

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