Directions: This question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in Gujarat eclipses its loss in Himachal Pradesh: not only is Gujarat a bigger State, but the scale of the party’s sweep in the western State also overshadows its narrow loss in the hill State.
P: AAP finished a distant third in Gujarat, but its furious foray into the State gained it a 13% voteshare, and also national party status.
Q: With another five-year term now, the BJP will rule Gujarat for 32 years, almost matching the Left Front’s 34-year rule in West Bengal that ended in 2011.
R: For the Congress, its victory in Himachal Pradesh is meagre consolation against the backdrop of its decimation in Gujarat where it had to be content with 17 of the 182 Assembly seats, as compared to 77 in 2017.
S: The BJP increased its vote share, from 49% in 2017 to 53% now.
S6: AAP’s entry triangulated the Gujarat contest, which worked to the BJP’s advantage.