21. ………………. started his career as the Prime Minister of independent India in 1947, and immediately launched a number of economic reforms.
A. Nehru
B. Indira Gandhi
C. Morarji Desai
D. Rajiv Gandhi
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Modern Indian History (1857 to the present)
22. In the ………………. Lok Sabha polls, Indira Gandhi returned to power and remainedin power till her assassination in 1984.
A. 1908
B. 1940
C. 1970
D. 1980
✅ The correct answer is option D.
23. …………………. succeeded her as the Prime Minister and led the Janata Party government till 1980.
A. Morarji Desai
B. Lalu Prasad Yadav,
C. Mulayam Singh Yadav
D. , Sharad Yadav
✅ The correct answer is option A.
24. However, ……………….. shocked everybody by declaring Lok Sabha elections in January 1977 bringing an end to draconian Emergency.
A. Indira Gandhi
B. Ramakrishna Hegde,
C. HD Deve Gowda,
D. M Karunanidhi.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
25. ……………. second son Sanjay Gandhi, who was just 29 years old then, took charge of the administration and started sending opposition leaders and workers to jails across India.
A. Nanaji Deshmukh’s
B. Morarji Desai’s
C. Indira Gandhis
D. , Subramanian Swamy’s,
✅ The correct answer is option C.
26. The Emergency draft was hurriedly sent to the President of India ……………. who signed it immediately.
A. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
B. George Fernandes
C. Dr.Rajendra Prasad
D. ManmohanSingh
✅ The correct answer is option A.
27. Under the farsighted leadership of ………………the nation, the government and the public leaders became committed to the promotion of science and technology.
A. Nehru,
B. Narasimha Rao
C. Prof. P.M.S Blackett
D. Vajpayee
✅ The correct answer is option A.
28. The firebrand trade union leader ………………..had successfully organised an all India Railways strike bringing the public transport and economy to a halt.
A. George Fernandes
B. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
C. Jaya Prakash Narayan
D. EMS
✅ The correct answer is option A.
29. In………………, the Atomic Energy Act was passed and the Department of Atomic Energy was directly under his charge was created.
A. 1908
B. 1938
C. 1945
D. 1948
✅ The correct answer is option D.
30. soon after becoming the Prime Minister of India, ……………..created a Ministry of Scientific Research and Natural Resources and actively supported the atomic energy programme for peaceful purposes.
A. Nehru
B. Narasimha Rao
C. Prof. P.M.S Blackett
D. Vajpayee5
✅ The correct answer is option A.