Correct answer: (a) 1, 2 and 3 only
Explanation
- A
1, 2 and 3 only
1, 2 and 3 only. Governors, Chief Ministers, and three Presidential nominees after the 2002 amendment.
- B
1, 3 and 4 only
1, 3 and 4 only. Drops CMs; the Union Home Minister is not a 2002 Act member in that list.
- C
2 and 4 only
2 and 4 only. Incomplete and inserts the Home Minister as if the 2002 composition.
- D
1, 2, 3 and 4
All four. The 2002 NEC Act list is Governors, CMs and three nominees — not the Home Minister as a constituent member.
Summary. Official key is (a) 1, 2 and 3 only. The North-Eastern Council Act, 1971, as amended in 2002, constituted the Council with the Governor and Chief Minister of each member State plus three members nominated by the President. The Union Home Minister later chairs NEC as a government arrangement; that is not statement 4 as a 2002 statutory member. So 4 drops.
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