Correct answer: (c) Statement-I is correct but Statement- II is incorrect
Explanation
- A
Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement- II is the correct explanation for Statement-I
Both correct and II explains I. The Drafting Committee was set up on 29 August 1947, not 26 November 1949.
- B
Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement- II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I
Both correct but II does not explain I. II is false.
- C
Statement-I is correct but Statement- II is incorrect
I correct, II incorrect. Constitution Day is 26 November (adoption, 1949). The Drafting Committee was already at work from 1947.
- D
Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct
I incorrect, II correct. 26 November 1949 is the adoption date.
Summary. Official key is (c). Constitution Day is 26 November, the day the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution in 1949. The Drafting Committee under Ambedkar was constituted on 29 August 1947 — not on 26 November 1949. Statement-II fails.
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