English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide · English · Paragraph Organization
Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is...
Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).
After the categorical verdict of the Delhi High Court that the Capital is a Union Territory, it was quite clear that any decision made by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal without the Lieutenant Governor’s approval will be rendered illegal. ________________________________. The appointments, made in March 2015, suffered from multiple legal infirmities. Apart from the lack of the LG’s concurrence, it raised the question of whether it was an ‘office of profit’ under the government, something legislators are barred from holding. The penalty stipulated in the Constitution for a legislator holding an office of profit is disqualification.
Options
- AThe Election Commission has also reserved its verdict on the question whether these 21 MLAs have incurred such disqualification, and it is possible for the Aam Aadmi Party now to ask the matter to be closed, citing the court’s setting aside of the appointments.
- BCounsel for the Delhi government had to concede the point in court, leading to the appointment of 21 Delhi legislators as parliamentary secretaries being set aside.
- CAt the same time, it cannot be denied that the EC could still choose to decide whether these MLAs had indeed held an office of profit for nearly a year-and-a-half.
- DThey had been rendered further vulnerable after the President withheld assent to a Delhi Bill to protect them from incurring disqualification — once again because it was introduced without the LG’s approval.
Correct answer
B.
Counsel for the Delhi government had to concede the point in court, leading to the appointment of 21 Delhi legislators as parliamentary secretaries being set aside.
Step-by-step solution
This question is a sitter!
Kindly observe the sentence that follows the blank. It starts with the noun phrase ‘The appointments’ and the only sentence that talks about the appointment is the sentence B.
Sentence A, and C can be eliminated because of the presence of the phrase ‘these MLAs’ as the preceding statement doesn’t introduce anything related to MLAs.
Sentence D doesn’t imply what ‘they’ or ‘them’ refers to. This eliminates it as well.
Sentence E would fit somewhere in a latter part of the paragraph or of the passage.
Option B is hence the correct answer.
Kindly observe the sentence that follows the blank. It starts with the noun phrase ‘The appointments’ and the only sentence that talks about the appointment is the sentence B.
Sentence A, and C can be eliminated because of the presence of the phrase ‘these MLAs’ as the preceding statement doesn’t introduce anything related to MLAs.
Sentence D doesn’t imply what ‘they’ or ‘them’ refers to. This eliminates it as well.
Sentence E would fit somewhere in a latter part of the paragraph or of the passage.
Option B is hence the correct answer.