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1. Question

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives.<br><br> This is the time to enlarge democracy's, not one party's base. Getting even with the AAP in Delhi, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party in U.P. and the Biju Janata Dal in Odisha can be a temptation for the Congress in ordinary times, not for this election summer when the 'kathiri' is out. Every party which believes in democracy is a natural ally of every other party believing in the same. Smaller confrontations must step aside in the face of the biggest contradiction that there can be, namely, of two contesting Indias - that of Gandhi-Nehru-Ghaffar Khan-Bhagat Singh-Ambedkar on the one hand and of a Hindu Rashtra on the other. <br><br> And this should be done in grim awareness of the fact that the 21st century autocrat is now to be seen not just in India but in countries as different and distant from one another as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, the Philippines, Hungary, using traditional 'resources' as well as new, softer and deadlier technologies, to spot and immobilise dissent, create a sense of a perpetual 'other', an eternal 'enemy', all in the name of a hyper nationalism. <br><br> But if there is gloom, there is also hope, as in the instance of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who, from the white heat of trauma spoke of the Christchurch victims of terror as "us" and of New Zealand being "home" to them. <br><br> Jayaprakash Narayan brought the democratic coalition together in 1977. There is no Jayaprakash today. But his spirit beckons the conflicted soul of India's democracy.

Which one of the following parties can be a difficult to get with for the congress-

2. Question

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives.<br><br> This is the time to enlarge democracy's, not one party's base. Getting even with the AAP in Delhi, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party in U.P. and the Biju Janata Dal in Odisha can be a temptation for the Congress in ordinary times, not for this election summer when the 'kathiri' is out. Every party which believes in democracy is a natural ally of every other party believing in the same. Smaller confrontations must step aside in the face of the biggest contradiction that there can be, namely, of two contesting Indias - that of Gandhi-Nehru-Ghaffar Khan-Bhagat Singh-Ambedkar on the one hand and of a Hindu Rashtra on the other. <br><br> And this should be done in grim awareness of the fact that the 21st century autocrat is now to be seen not just in India but in countries as different and distant from one another as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, the Philippines, Hungary, using traditional 'resources' as well as new, softer and deadlier technologies, to spot and immobilise dissent, create a sense of a perpetual 'other', an eternal 'enemy', all in the name of a hyper nationalism. <br><br> But if there is gloom, there is also hope, as in the instance of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who, from the white heat of trauma spoke of the Christchurch victims of terror as "us" and of New Zealand being "home" to them. <br><br> Jayaprakash Narayan brought the democratic coalition together in 1977. There is no Jayaprakash today. But his spirit beckons the conflicted soul of India's democracy.

Why should the smaller confrontations be step aside by every party?

3. Question

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the questions out of five alternatives.<br><br> This is the time to enlarge democracy's, not one party's base. Getting even with the AAP in Delhi, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party in U.P. and the Biju Janata Dal in Odisha can be a temptation for the Congress in ordinary times, not for this election summer when the 'kathiri' is out. Every party which believes in democracy is a natural ally of every other party believing in the same. Smaller confrontations must step aside in the face of the biggest contradiction that there can be, namely, of two contesting Indias - that of Gandhi-Nehru-Ghaffar Khan-Bhagat Singh-Ambedkar on the one hand and of a Hindu Rashtra on the other. <br><br> And this should be done in grim awareness of the fact that the 21st century autocrat is now to be seen not just in India but in countries as different and distant from one another as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, the Philippines, Hungary, using traditional 'resources' as well as new, softer and deadlier technologies, to spot and immobilise dissent, create a sense of a perpetual 'other', an eternal 'enemy', all in the name of a hyper nationalism. <br><br> But if there is gloom, there is also hope, as in the instance of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who, from the white heat of trauma spoke of the Christchurch victims of terror as "us" and of New Zealand being "home" to them. <br><br> Jayaprakash Narayan brought the democratic coalition together in 1977. There is no Jayaprakash today. But his spirit beckons the conflicted soul of India's democracy.

Which of the following country does not have autocratic government according to the passage-

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