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Q1. On what date was the National Front formed under NTR’s efforts?
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Answer: C
The front was a coalition of non-Congress parties. It governed India in 1989 and 1990.
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Q2. How many seats did the TDP win in the 1983 Andhra Pradesh election?
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Answer: C
It won 201 of the 294 seats. The result was announced on 7 January 1983.
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Q3. When was the Telugu Desam Party founded?
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Answer: B
NTR founded the party in March 1982. It won power in the next assembly election.
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Q4. Who led the August 1995 revolt within the TDP that ended NTR’s final term as Chief Minister?
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Answer: B
N. Chandrababu Naidu, married to NTR’s daughter, led the revolt and was sworn in as Chief Minister on 1 September 1995. NTR died four months later.
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Q5. In the celebrated 1957 film “Mayabazar,” which Hindu deity did NTR play?
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Answer: A
He played Krishna in Mayabazar, one of his most celebrated roles, in a film widely ranked among Indian cinema’s greatest.
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Q6. When did NTR actually declare total prohibition on alcohol in Andhra Pradesh?
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Answer: D
Prohibition came only in January 1995, in his fourth term, following a grassroots anti-arrack movement led by rural women that began around 1991-92 — not during his first term, as is sometimes assumed.
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Q7. In August 1984, NTR was removed from office by the Governor. What was he doing at the time?
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Answer: C
He was in the US recovering from heart surgery when the Governor removed him from office. He was reinstated a month later, on 16 September 1984, after a major political backlash.
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Q8. N.T. Rama Rao founded the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in March 1982. What did the party achieve within a year?
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Answer: B
The TDP won 201 of 294 assembly seats in the 1983 election, making NTR Andhra Pradesh’s first non-Congress Chief Minister.
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Q9. NTR’s final term ended in 1995, when his son-in-law N. Chandrababu Naidu led a revolt within the TDP. On what date was Naidu sworn in as his replacement?
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Answer: B
N. Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as Chief Minister on 1 September 1995, replacing NTR after the TDP revolt.
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Q10. In August 1984, NTR was removed from office by the Governor while he was abroad. What was he doing, and how long before he was reinstated?
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Answer: D
NTR was in the US recovering from heart surgery when the Governor installed a rival as Chief Minister. He was reinstated on 16 September 1984, after a month-long political crisis.
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Q11. NTR was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 9 January 1983. What distinction did this mark?
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Answer: C
NTR became Andhra Pradesh’s first non-Congress Chief Minister. An earlier AP Chief Minister, Damodaram Sanjivayya, had instead been India’s first Dalit Chief Minister, decades before.
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