a. Ashok Singhal
aa. Professor Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiyya
e. Bal Thackeray
ee. 'Bina-Bal' Thakre alias Khushabhau Thakre

kha: And which Hindu leader said, "The pilot should have just refused to fly the aircraft from Amritsar when it stopped for refuelling"?

a. Ashok Singhal
aa. Professor Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiyya
e. Bal Thackeray
ee. 'Bina-Bal' Thakre alias Khushabhau Thakre

ga: How many militants did External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh take with him on the plane to Kandahar to secure the release of the hostages on board IC-814?

a. one
aa. two
e. three
ee. four

gha: Who was the one repeat ONE leader who could be credited with creating the mass base of the BJP, according to an editorial in the party mouthpiece BJP Today?

a. Ram
aa. 'Ram-bhakt'
e. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee
ee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

jnya: Even as 'lovers' were attacked in Kanpur on February 14, which Shiv Sena leader said, "We should not celebrate Valentine's Day when we have our own Laila and Majnu"?

a. Bal Thackeray
ha-ha-ha. Smita Thackeray
e. a and ha-ha-ha
ee. Udhav Thackeray

cha: In an interview to Time magazine, who asserted that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi could never have said "Hey Ram" as he breathed his last because the seven bullets fired into him would not have given him the time to do so?

a. Nathuram Godse
aa. Gopal Godse
e. Sadhvi Rithambara
ee. Vinay Katiyar

chcha: Which state government withdrew a ban on its employees joining the RSS and then reimposed the ban under pressure?

a. Gujarat
aa. Rajasthan
e. Himachal Pradesh
ee. All of the above

ja: What brand of shoes was the Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, an unabashed Sanghi, spotted wearing at an RSS meet in early 2000?

a. Reebok
aa. Nike
e. Gucci
ee. Mochi

jha: Which prominent member of the NDA government clarified for the benefit of the people of India that the RSS was a social and cultural organisation, and not a political outfit?

a. Uma Bharti
aa. Murli Manohar Joshi
e. Narendra Modi
ee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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