Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R):

Assertion (A) — The President can recommend to the Parliament to change the boundary of any state after seeking views of the concerned Legislature of that state on the subject within specified period.

Reason (R) — It is not mandatory for the President to accept the proposal of the concerned State Legislature.

Select the correct answer using the code given
below-

A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A)

B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not correct explanation of (A)

C) (A) is true but (R) is false

D) (A) is false but (R) is true

This MCQ is part of the UP PSC Previous Year Questions (PYQs) series, focusing on UPPSC Prelims 2023 (GS Paper I)