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Given below is a report with four blanks. Fill those blanks with the options provided in P, Q, R, S, in correct order to make it sensibly readable.

Can one person's religious freedom interfere with another's food preferences? And what if the freedom of one religious group is in conflict with

that of another? The ______(I)_________in the States concerned. Not surprisingly, the order of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation requiring ?slaughter? houses and_____(II)___________, its own ally in Maharashtra, over the decision. When more States began announcing similar bans, the issue became contentious and took on a communal colour.

Although such a move is nothing new, _______ (III)____disquiet. The stated rationale for the prohibition is to prevent 'slaughter' during the period of fasting. But that did not _____ (IV)_______like Mumbai. By ordering a ban on meat for an extended period, the present government has revealed a fundamentalist streak, and thus risked a backlash from some of its own core supporters.

P: ban imposed in some States on the sale of meat during the Jain community's annual fasting period of Paryushan is problematic for more than one reason, and militates against the food preferences of a majority of the people

Q: convince the Bombay High Court, which termed the move "regressive" and "absurd" in a cosmopolitan city

R: the publicity given to the ban this time, and it being extended from two days to four and eight days, resulted in much

S: meat shops to remain closed for four days during the fasting period led to public outrage, and the Bharatiya Janata Party came under attack from the Shiv Sena

A)  PQRS

B)  QRSP

C)  QPSR

D)  PSRQ

E)  None of these