Milton Dick of Australia Elected President of the IPU at Arusha

The correct answer is Milton Dick, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia, who was declared elected after a secret ballot in the IPU Governing Council on the closing day of the Assembly. Option A, Harivansh, is wrong: he is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and led the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Arusha, and he was one of the three Indian members who cast India's votes in the election, not a candidate for the post. Option C, Mussa Azzan Zungu, is wrong because he is the Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania and served as President of this particular Assembly, the sitting he formally declared closed; presiding over one Assembly in the host country is a different thing from heading the organisation. Option D, Sasmit Patra, is wrong as well; he is a Rajya Sabha member of the delegation and his role was to hand the newly elected President a letter of congratulation from the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

The correct answer is Arusha, Tanzania. The Assembly was held there from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the outcome document it adopted on its final day is accordingly named the Arusha Communiqué. Option A, Nairobi in Kenya, is wrong; Nairobi hosts several United Nations offices and is therefore a plausible-looking choice, but it was not the venue. Option B, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, is wrong; it is the seat of the African Union and again a tempting distractor for an East African meeting. Option D, Kampala in Uganda, is wrong and had no part in this Assembly. A useful habit for aspirants is to link the city to the document: when a communiqué or declaration carries a place name, that place is almost always the host city, so Arusha Communiqué points straight to Arusha. The Assembly was closed by Mussa Azzan Zungu, Speaker of the National Assembly of the host country.

The correct answer is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Harivansh, who led the Indian Parliamentary Delegation at Arusha and was one of the three members who cast India's votes for the IPU presidency. Option A, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, is wrong, though the Speaker is connected with the event in another way: the letter of congratulation presented to the newly elected President came from the Lok Sabha Speaker, carried by the Rajya Sabha member Sasmit Patra. Option C, the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, is wrong and is simply a confusion of the two Houses and their presiding officers. Option D, the Minister of External Affairs, is wrong on a point of principle worth remembering: the Inter-Parliamentary Union is a forum of national parliaments rather than of governments, so a country is represented there by a parliamentary delegation of members of its legislature and not by its foreign ministry. The other two Indian votes were cast by the Lok Sabha members Anurag Singh Thakur and Kamaljeet Sehrawat.

The correct answer is option A. The text taken up as the emergency item sought urgent parliamentary action to address climate-related disasters and to strengthen resilience in the Himalayan region and other vulnerable regions, a subject of obvious concern to India and its neighbours. Option B, reform of the United Nations Security Council, is wrong; that is a recurring theme of debates among governments at the United Nations, not the emergency item of this Assembly. Option C, regulation of artificial intelligence in elections, is wrong and finds no place among the documents adopted here. Option D, debt relief for the least developed countries, is wrong as well. Candidates should keep the three outcomes of the Assembly apart: the Arusha Communiqué, the resolution of the Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights on inclusive social development and the rights and empowerment of persons with disabilities, and the emergency item on climate-related disasters.