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

Assertion (A): The concept of National Integration involves political, economic, social, cultural and psychological dimensions and inter-relation between them.
Reason (R): The National Integration Council was constituted in 1961 on the principle of ‘Unity in Diversity’.

Select the correct answer from the code given below:
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A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

B) (A) is false, but (R) is true

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

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

This MCQ is part of the UP PSC Previous Year Questions (PYQs) series, focusing on UPPSC Prelims 2025 (GS Paper I)