Match the following States and their respective Chief Ministers, who became Prime Minister of India. I a. P. V. Narasimha Rao b. Morarji Desai c. H. D. Devegowda d. Charan Singh e. Narendra Modi II i. Undivided Uttar Pradesh ii. Undivided Andhra Pradesh iii. Gujarat iv. Karnataka v. Bombay Choose the correct option: Codes:
- (a)iv v ii i iii
- (b)iv ii v i iii
- (c)ii i iv v iii
- (d)ii v iv i iii
Correct — D, the code 'ii v iv i iii'. Matching list I (a-e) to list II: (a) P. V. Narasimha Rao was Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh (ii) before becoming PM in 1991; (b) Morarji Desai was Chief Minister of the old Bombay State (v) before becoming PM in 1977; (c) H. D. Deve Gowda was Chief Minister of Karnataka (iv) before becoming PM in 1996; (d) Charan Singh was Chief Minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh (i) before becoming PM in 1979; and (e) Narendra Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat (iii) before becoming PM in 2014. That gives a-ii, b-v, c-iv, d-i, e-iii — option D.
- (a)iv v ii i iii — Pairs Narasimha Rao with Karnataka (iv) and Deve Gowda with Andhra Pradesh (ii) — the two are swapped. Rao headed Andhra Pradesh; Deve Gowda headed Karnataka.
- (b)iv ii v i iii — Pairs Narasimha Rao with Karnataka (iv) and Morarji Desai with Andhra Pradesh (ii). Rao was Andhra Pradesh's CM and Desai was Bombay State's — both mismatched.
- (c)ii i iv v iii — Gets Rao (ii, Andhra) right but pairs Morarji Desai with Uttar Pradesh (i) and Charan Singh with Bombay (v) — those two are reversed. Desai led Bombay; Charan Singh led UP.
Only some Prime Ministers of India were first Chief Ministers of a State. The 'undivided' tag matters: 'undivided Andhra Pradesh' is before the 2014 Telangana split, 'undivided Uttar Pradesh' is before Uttarakhand (2000), and 'Bombay' refers to the bilingual Bombay State that split into Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960.
The trap is mixing the two southern leaders (Rao with Andhra, Deve Gowda with Karnataka) and the northern/western pair (Charan Singh with UP, Morarji Desai with Bombay). Anchor each PM to the State he actually governed.
- P. V. Narasimha Rao — CM of (undivided) Andhra Pradesh 1971-73; PM 1991-96.
- Morarji Desai — CM of Bombay State 1952-56; PM 1977-79, India's first non-Congress PM.
- H. D. Deve Gowda — CM of Karnataka 1994-96; PM 1996-97.
- Charan Singh — CM of Uttar Pradesh (1967, 1970); PM 1979-80.
- Narendra Modi — CM of Gujarat 2001-14; PM since 2014.
Correct code (a-e): ii, v, iv, i, iii -> option (d).
- Swapping Narasimha Rao (Andhra Pradesh) and Deve Gowda (Karnataka)
- Assuming every PM was first a CM — Nehru, Shastri, Indira, Rajiv, Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh were not
MPPSC and UPSC frame this as a two-list match or 'who was CM of State X before becoming PM' — fix each PM to the State he governed.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Before becoming Prime Minister, Morarji Desai served as Chief Minister of which State?
- (a)Gujarat
- (b)Bombay State
- (c)Maharashtra
- (d)Saurashtra
Answer(b) Bombay State — he headed it in 1952-56, before its 1960 bifurcation.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following Prime Ministers of India had NOT earlier been a Chief Minister?
- (a)Charan Singh
- (b)H. D. Deve Gowda
- (c)Lal Bahadur Shastri
- (d)P. V. Narasimha Rao
Answer(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri — he was a Union minister, never a Chief Minister.