Directions: Read the following passage/information and answer the question that follows.

In India, Bhartiya Kisan Manch (BKM) won 37 seats in the 545 seats of Parliament in 1954. It managed to win only 3 seats in the 1959 election, even though the party’s pro-agrarian reform agenda had essentially remained unchanged. This decline in the party’s fortunes clearly demonstrates that, in India, pro-agrarian reform concerns faded in significance between 1954 and 1959.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

On the basis of information that Bhartiya Kisan Manch (BKM),  which had 37 seats out of 545 in the town council in 1954, had lost majority of them in 1959, the author argues that the decline in the party’s fortunes clearly demonstrates that pro-agrarian reform concern faded in significance in India during this period. Choice (2) says that the India’s leading political parties (which had won majority of other seats in 1954 and 1959) had revised their platform adopting a strongly pro-agrarian reform stance. If this is true, voters who are in favor of pro-agrarian reform would have voted for the leading political parties this time instead of for the BKM. So the defeat of the members of the BKM party would not mean that pro-agrarian reform concerns had faded in significance in the minds of the voters. So, (2) seriously weakens the argument of the author and is the answer.