Question

What is the full form of NDA?
(a) National Democratic Agenda
(b) National Democratic Alliance
(c) National Development Alliance
(d) None of these

Answer 1

Hint: NDA is the acronym for one of the major political coalitions of Republic of India. It is a political alliance of Indian center-right and right wing political parties. We also know that the coalition is led by the BJP from 1998.

Complete answer:
The NDA was formed in May 1998 as a coalition to contest the general elections. It was led by the BJP, and included several regional parties, including the Samta Party and the AIADMK, as well as Shiv Sena.
Option ‘a’, National Democratic Agenda, is the incorrect option as we know that a coalition is long term while an agenda is a short term goal or target.
Proceeding to option b, we can figure out that it is the correct option as the NDA acronym is correctly expanded to National Democratic Alliance.
We see that option c, National Development Alliance can not be the correct alternative as Development is not the sole ideology of this particular coalition, so to use this term in their will not make any sense.
Since we have deduced that option b is the correct answer, hence automatically, option d is the incorrect answer.

Note: While the full form of NDA is National Democratic Alliance, the opposition coalition, which goes by the acronym UPA, stands for United Progressive Alliance, of which the Sonia Gandhi lead Indian National Congress (INC) is a major flagbearer.