Consider the following pairs : Party Its Leader 1.

Consider the following pairs :

PartyIts Leader
1.Bharatiya Jana SanghDr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
2.Socialist PartyC. Rajagopalachari
3.Congress for DemocracyJagjivan Ram
4.Swatantra PartyAcharya Narendra Dev

How many of the above are correctly matched ?

Only one
Only two
Only three
All four
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UPSC IAS – 2024
The correct option is B.
Pair 1: Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded by Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951. This is correctly matched.
Pair 2: The Socialist Party was associated with leaders like Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Dev, Ram Manohar Lohia, etc. C. Rajagopalachari founded the Swatantra Party. This is incorrectly matched.
Pair 3: The Congress for Democracy was formed by Jagjivan Ram and other leaders who left the Indian National Congress just before the 1977 general election. This is correctly matched.
Pair 4: The Swatantra Party was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in 1959. Acharya Narendra Dev was a prominent Socialist leader. This is incorrectly matched.
Only two pairs (1 and 3) are correctly matched.