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Given below is a report with four blanks. Fill those blanks with the options provided to make the report sensible.

Hindustan Times, 4th Oct: Sixty-six years after Independence, ______I ____for narrow electoral considerations. By bowing to a sustained agitation in a piecemeal manner, the pathways have been opened for similar agitations.

Though given ample opportunity ____II ____it. As a result, future governments are likely to continue behaving like proverbial headless chickens whenever faced with similar situations elsewhere.

Many argue that demands for smaller states raise the spectre of something like 565 princely states coming back to haunt India. _____III_____. Parties with a pan-

Indian presence will probably be at an advantage.

But even if this does not happen, it is not sufficient reason for not taking a fresh look at reorganisation. Quick-fix___ IV ___adequately backed by experts.

P: Solutions chiseled out on social media, TV shows or through other mass media cannot replace reasoned scrutiny by a second reorganisation commission

Q: The government and political parties across the board still react as crisis managers when redrawing the nation's internal map. Instead of rationally evolved principles guiding it, the decision on Telangana has once again been

Taken

R: Over the past three years to evolve a framework for reorganisation of India, the government squandered

S: Such fears are exaggerated and on the contrary this may significantly reduce the role and have sufficient numbers of parliamentary seats for leaders in just one small state to exert considerable political influence

A)  PQRS

B)  QRPS

C)  RSQP

D)  QRSP

E)  None of these