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Given below is a passage with four blanks. Fill those with P, Q, R, S, in correct order, to make the passage readable and sensible.

Defence    Minister    Manohar    Parrikar's announcement that the government has decided to implement_____ (I) ____ the services. Credit must be given to the government for bringing a sense of closure to an issue that has been hanging fire for over 40 years. That______ (II) ____and the hardened, almost intransigent, positions that had to be addressed. Yet it must be said that the government could have handled this better. The same could be said about the timing of the announcement too. By dragging the issue to a point nearly coinciding with the run-up to the Bihar Assembly elections, ______ (III) _____ deftly. In the time it took for the government to take a decision, the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party and sections of the Left were raring to move into the breach by beating____ (IV) ______politicians. The fact is that the Congress did not come through when it could have; instead it cited administrative, technical and funding difficulties.

P: the One Rank One Pension scheme came as a huge relief to the veterans of the armed forces and also to those now in

Q: the Prime Minister's Office finally had to step in after nearly three months of wrenching agitations by the veterans is a telling commentary on the complicated nature of the issue

R: a path to Jantar Mantar where the veterans "were on a hunger strike in a determined attempt to goad the government into action. The veterans should not be allowed to become tools in the hands of

S: Prime Minister Narendra Modi risked pushing it squarely into the political arena, but he acted

 

A)  PQRS

B)  QPRS

C)  PQ.SR

D)  QPSR

E)  None of these