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Given below is a passage with four blanks. Fill those blanks with the options provided as P, Q, R,

S, in correct order, to make the passage readable and also sensible one.

The vice-president of India, Hamid Ansari, is renowned as a scholar and a seasoned diplomat. His speech_____ (I) _____gave ample proof of these qualities. He_____ (II) ___, to stress the need for affirmative action to help the Muslim community of India. At a time when shrill propaganda by ideologues seems to have become the norm, Mr. Ansari's speech sounded remarkably reasonable. The much-hyped slogan of the Central government, "Sabka saath, sabka vikas", indeed makes little sense if every religious community cannot progress equally. And there is___ (III) _____, as

Mr. Ansari correctly pointed out. However, going strictly by the Constitution, Mr Ansari should not have been giving this speech at all. The vice-president is ____

(IV)____vacant. As a titular head of State, the

President is not expected to publicly criticize the functioning of an elected government. It follows from this that such criticism would be deemed improper if it comes from the Vice- President too.

P: not only the ex-officio chairperson of the council of States, he also acts as the president when the latter's office falls

Q: referred to documents such as the Sachar

Committee report of 2006 and the Kundu report of 2014, and to scholarly writers such as Sheikh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi and the Algerian-French philosopher, Mohammed Arkoun

R: at the 50th anniversary session of the All India

Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat

S: no reason why one community should be favoured and another deprived when the constitution ensures equal rights for everyone

A) RPSQ

B) PQRS

C) RQSP

D) SPRQ

E) None of these