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Current Affairs Questions for UPSC: The Current Affairs Quiz section of Jagran Josh aims to help every competitive exam aspirant to revise Current Affairs of the day at ease. The Current Affairs questions and answers cover topics such as UP Elections 2022, Punjab Election Results and South Korea’s new President among others.
1. Which party has won the highest number of seats in Goa Assembly Elections?
a) BJP
b) BSP
c) AAP
d) INC
2. Which AAP candidate has been referred to as the giant killer after defeating both Navjot Singh Sidhu and Bikram Singh Majithia from Amritsar East?
a) Raman Arora
b) Dr. Baljit Kaur
c) Inderjit Kaur Mann
d) Jeevan Jyot Kaur
3. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister had contested UP Elections 2022 from which seat?
a) Gorakhpur Urban
b) Gopalpur
c) Azamgarh
d) Ayodhya
4. Which state’s chief minister lost his seat despite his party’s big win in the state in Assembly Elections 2022?
a) Uttarakhand
b) Goa
c) Manipur
d) Uttar Pradesh
5. Which party will form the first non-Congress, non-Akali Dal government in Punjab?
a) BJP
b) BSP
c) AAP
d) TMC
6. Who among the following won lost both the seats he was contesting from in Punjab Elections 2022?
a) Captain Amarinder Singh
b) Navjot Singh Sidhu
c) Charanjit Singh Channi
d) Parkash Singh Badal
7. Yoon Suk-yeol has been elected as which nation’s next President?
a) Vietnam
b) South Korea
c) Indonesia
d) Malaysia
Answers
1. (a) BJP
The Bharatiya Janata Party has achieved a hat-trick in Goa by winning 20 seats in the 40-member Goa Assembly. The party will be forming government in the state with the support of 2 MGP (Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party) MLAs and three Independents.
2. (d) Jeevan Jyot Kaur
AAP candidate Jeevan Jyot Kaur, is bring called the giant killer for defeating Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and senior SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia from Amritsar East by a margin of 6750 votes.
3. (a) Gorakhpur Urban
Yogi Adityanath had contested UP Elections 2022 from his stronghold, Gorakhpur Urban. He defeated Samajwadi Party’s Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla by a margin of 103390 votes.
4. (a) Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami submitted his resignation along with that of his cabinet to the Uttarakhand Governor Gurmit Singh. The move comes after Dhami lost from Khatima constituency to INC’s Bhuwan Chandra Kapri by a margin of 6579 votes despite BJP reporting a comfortable victory in the Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2022 with 47 seats in the 70-member assembly.
5. (c) AAP
AAP has won a three-fourth majority in Punjab Election Results 2022, a historic victory for the relatively new party that only had a presence in the national capital till now. AAP won 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly. Congress was reduced to 18, while the Shiromani Akali Dal had to settle for 3 seats. This paves for AAP to form the first non-Congress and non-Akali Dal government in Punjab.
6. (c) Charanjit Singh Channi
Congress leader and Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi lost from both Bhadaur and Chamkaur Sahib by 37558 votes and 7942 votes respectively in the recently held Punjab Assembly Elections 2022. The ruling Congress party could not stop the massive AAP wave that swept across the state, storming to power with 92 seats in the 117-member assembly, while Congress was reduced to 18 seats and the Akali Dal nearly demolished with just 3 seats.
7. (b) South Korea
Yoon Suk Yeol has been elected as South Korea’s new President, after winning the South Korean Presidential Elections 2022. Yoon Suk Yeol, the conservative beat Democratic party’s Lee Jae-myung in one of the most closely fought elections, with the final count separated by less than 1 percent vote. He will succeed incumbent South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who could not seek reelection, as the nation’s constitution limits a president to a single five-year term.
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