Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). **Assertion (A):** Jayaprakash Narayan advocated for a 'Party-less Democracy' (Nirdaliya Loktantra) during his post-independence political phase. **Reason (R):** He believed that political parties act as centralized power structures that breed corruption and distance the common citizens from true self-governance.

Options:

  • A: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
  • B: Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
  • C: A is true but R is false
  • D: A is false but R is true

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