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Given below is a paragraph with four blanks.

Fill those blanks with the options provided to make it a sensible one. When Barack Obama was elected President of the US, all of us hailed it as the triumph of American democracy. For the first time, __I__ with a sizeable majority. However, the universal feeling of triumph about the working of American democracy soon yielded place to a sense of despondency. Among ___II___ what people want. The UK is another example. The average citizen has become poorer with a higher level of unemployment. The same is the case with Japan, and countries in the European Union.

In the midst of all this "darkness", as it were, where does India stand? The short answer is that our position is not any better. In addition to ___ III___, the faith of the ordinary citizen in the working of their elected government has been shaken. Cutting across political parties - in power and in opposition -____IV__

P: "systemic" problems, like erosion of collective responsibility, excessive centralisation and widespread political corruption

Q: large democracies, the US is not alone in facing a crisis in delivering

R: nearly 25 per cent of elected members in the Lok Sabha have criminal antecedents

S: after the adoption of the US Constitution in 1787, a person of African origin was elected to the highest office of the state

Choose your option

 

A) QRPS

B) SQPR

C) RSQP

D) PSRQ

E) None of these