Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding MS Gurupadaswamy who died on 10th May, 2011 after suffering a heart attack?

  1. He served as petroleum and chemicals minister in the VP Singh government.

  2. His political career began when he successfully contested the Lok Sabha elections in 1952 from Mysore as a Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party candidate.

  3. He fell out with Indira Gandhi during the 1969 split and resigned from the ministry. Gurpadaswamy, then in Congress (O), became Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha.

  4. He had worked as a journalist for a Kannada weekly in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

He fell out with Indira Gandhi during the 1969 split and resigned from the ministry. Gurpadaswamy, then in Congress (O), became Leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha.

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