MPSC State Service 2019 · CSAT · Question 28 of 72

Passage: India is not the only country to have experienced the dominance of one party. If we look around the world, we find many other examples of one party dominance. But there is a crucial difference between these and the Indian experience. In the rest of the cases dominance of one party was ensured by compromising democracy. In some countries like China, Cuba and Syria, the constitution permits a single party to rule the country. Some others like Myanmar, Belarus, Egypt and Eritrea are effectively one party states due to legal and military measures. Until a few years ago, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were also effectively one party dominant states. What distinguished the dominance of the Congress Party in India from all these cases was it happened under democratic conditions. Many parties contested elections in conditions of free and fair elections and yet the Congress managed to win election after election. This was similar to the dominance that the African National Congress has enjoyed in South Africa after the end of apartheid. In the early years there was a lot of mutual respect between the leaders of the Congress and those of the opposition. The interim government that ruled the country after the declaration of Independence and first general election includes opposition leaders like Dr. Ambedkar and Shyama prasad Mukherjee in the Cabinet. Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Shyamaprasad Mukherjee were leaders of which opposition parties?

Reading Comprehension

1. ADr. Ambedkar - Socialist Party Shyamaprasad Mukherjee - Bharatiya Jansangh
2. BDr. Ambedkar - Scheduled Caste Federation Shyamaprasad Mukherjee - Bharatiya Janta Party
3. CDr. Ambedkar - Independent Labour Party Shyamaprasad Mukherjee - Hindu Mahasabha
4. DNone of the aboveCorrect