UPSC Prelims 2018— Question 70

**Concept and analysis:** The Hind Mazdoor Sabha was established in 1948 as a trade union organisation associated with socialist and independent labour leaders. Among its founders were Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta. The other options combine people associated with different political, social or reform contexts and do not represent the founding group. The question is testing precise UPSC-level identification rather than a broad association. The key is to distinguish the exact institutional, constitutional, historical, geographical, economic or scientific feature being asked. **Option-wise evaluation** **Option A:** Incorrect. B. Krishna Pillai, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and K.C. George is a different institution, place, definition, proposition or description and does not satisfy the specific requirement of the question. **Option B:** Incorrect. Jayaprakash Narayan, Deen Day al Upadhyay and M.N. Roy is a different institution, place, definition, proposition or description and does not satisfy the specific requirement of the question. **Option C:** Incorrect. C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer, K. Kamaraj and Veeresalingam Pantulu is a different institution, place, definition, proposition or description and does not satisfy the specific requirement of the question. **Option D:** Correct. Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta directly matches the concept or factual identification established in the analysis. **UPSC takeaway:** The safest way to solve this type of question is to anchor the answer in the defining feature of the concept and then test every option against that feature. Closely related institutions or terms are often used as distractors. In statement-based questions, do not judge the option as a whole before checking each statement independently. In factual questions, compare the wording of each option with the exact definition, location, institutional role, chronology or scientific property. The correct answer follows from that verification rather than from familiarity with a keyword.