Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). **Assertion (A):** Babu Kunwar Singh evacuated Jagdishpur in August 1857 and moved towards Banda and Kalpi. **Reason (R):** He aimed to join forces with Tatya Tope and Nana Sahib to strengthen the anti-British coalition in Central India. Choose the correct option:

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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