Who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Sampurnanand
- B.Govind Ballabh Pant
- C.Chandra Bhanu Gupta
- D.Charan Singh
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Govind Ballabh Pant. Pant headed the government of the United Provinces from 1946 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after the renaming in 1950. He later became Union Home Minister, in which office the Official Language rules and the reorganisation of states were carried through, and he was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1957.
Option A is wrong because Sampurnanand succeeded Pant as Chief Minister in 1954. Option C is wrong because Chandra Bhanu Gupta held the office later, in the nineteen sixties. Option D is wrong because Charan Singh became Chief Minister in 1967 as the head of the first non-Congress government in the state and later Prime Minister of India, so his name is a frequent distractor in this question.
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Practice Questions
View allThe United Provinces was renamed Uttar Pradesh in which year?
- A.1947
- B.1950
- C.1956
- D.1960
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The province known as the United Provinces since 1937 was renamed Uttar Pradesh when the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, and the new name kept the familiar initials UP.
Read the full explanation →Uttarakhand, created from Uttar Pradesh, came into existence on which date?
- A.1 November 2000
- B.9 November 2000
- C.15 November 2000
- D.1 January 2007
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Under the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, the thirteen hill districts of the Kumaon and Garhwal divisions were separated to form Uttaranchal, the twenty-seventh state of India, on 9 November 2000, with Dehradun as its interim capital and the High Court at Nainital.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution empowers Parliament to form a new state by separating territory from an existing state?
- A.Article 1
- B.Article 2
- C.Article 3
- D.Article 4
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Article 3 allows Parliament by law to form a new state by separating territory from any state, by uniting two or more states or parts of them, and to increase or diminish the area of a state or alter its boundaries or name.
Read the full explanation →Before 1902, the province that became Uttar Pradesh was known by which name?
- A.North-Western Provinces
- B.Central Provinces
- C.United Provinces
- D.Awadh Province
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The Ceded and Conquered Provinces were reorganised in 1836 as the North-Western Provinces, with Agra as the seat of government, and Awadh was attached to the same administration in 1877.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the correct chronological order of the three states created in the year 2000?
- A.Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal
- B.Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand
- C.Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh
- D.Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal
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The three states came into existence within a fortnight: Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000 from Madhya Pradesh as the twenty-sixth state, Uttaranchal on 9 November 2000 from Uttar Pradesh as the twenty-seventh, and Jharkhand on 15 November 2000 from Bihar as the twenty-eighth.
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