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Q1. Which Prime Minister received the Lokmanya Tilak National Award in 2023?
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Answer: C
Modi received it on 1 August 2023 and donated the prize money to the Namami Gange project.
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Q2. Before entering electoral politics, P.V. Narasimha Rao was suspended from Osmania University. Why?
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Answer: C
He was suspended for taking part in the movement against the Nizam of Hyderabad’s restrictions, including singing the banned song “Vande Mataram.”
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Q3. Under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s, in what order did P.V. Narasimha Rao hold his Union Cabinet portfolios?
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Answer: C
He led External Affairs starting in 1980, then briefly held Home, then moved to Defence into the mid-1980s.
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Q4. The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments were passed by Parliament in December 1992. When did they actually take effect?
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Answer: B
Parliament passed the amendments in December 1992, but they only took effect in 1993, after being ratified by the states, giving Panchayati Raj institutions and urban local bodies constitutional status.
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Q5. P.V. Narasimha Rao’s posthumous Bharat Ratna involved two separate dates. What were they?
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Answer: A
The award was announced on 9 February 2024, but only formally presented to his family at a separate Rashtrapati Bhavan ceremony on 30 March 2024.
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Q6. In June 1991, just before P.V. Narasimha Rao became PM, how low had India’s foreign-exchange reserves fallen?
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Answer: B
Reserves had fallen to roughly $1 billion, barely enough to cover a few weeks of imports — sources vary on the exact number of weeks, so this is treated as an approximation, not a precise official figure.
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Q7. P.V. Narasimha Rao was conferred the Bharat Ratna posthumously. In which year was this awarded?
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Answer: C
The Government of India conferred the Bharat Ratna on Rao posthumously on 9 February 2024, recognising his role in the 1991 economic reforms and the Panchayati Raj amendments. He died on 23 December 2004.
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Q8. In December 1995, PM Narasimha Rao authorised secret preparations for nuclear tests at Pokhran. What stopped the tests at the time?
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Answer: B
American satellites detected the test preparations, forcing a pause. Rao reportedly told incoming PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996, “Saamagri tayyar hai” — the material is ready — laying groundwork for the 1998 Pokhran-II tests.
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Q9. The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments, passed under PM Narasimha Rao in 1992, gave constitutional status to which institutions?
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Answer: A
The 73rd Amendment covered Panchayati Raj institutions (rural local government) and the 74th covered urban local bodies (municipalities), both taking effect in 1993.
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Q10. Who was the Finance Minister who partnered with PM Narasimha Rao to launch India’s 1991 LPG economic reforms?
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Answer: C
Finance Minister Manmohan Singh presented the 24 July 1991 Union Budget that launched the Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation (LPG) reforms, dismantling India’s industrial licensing system.
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Q11. P.V. Narasimha Rao became India’s 9th Prime Minister in 1991. He was the first Prime Minister from which part of India?
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Answer: B
Rao became Prime Minister in June 1991, as a consensus candidate after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination — the first Prime Minister from South India, and the first Congress PM outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve a full term.
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Q12. On 4 March 2024, a seven-judge Supreme Court bench in Sita Soren v. Union of India overruled which earlier precedent?
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Answer: C
Correct: Sita Soren overruled P.V. Narasimha Rao. On 4 March 2024 the Court held that a bribe for a vote is not protected by privilege.
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Q13. Which three successive Prime Ministers did Sukhamoy Chakravarty serve, as Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council?
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Answer: A
He chaired the Council of Economic Advisers to Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and V.P. Singh. The Journal of Asian Studies obituary names all three. The ISI note and the RIS booklet also say he served three successive Prime Ministers.
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