Given below are two statements:

Assertion [A]: Climate change is leading to an increase in social tension in India.
Reason [RI: The frequency and intensity of the extreme weather events will have serious repercussions on food security.

Choose the correct answer from the code given below:

A) Both [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct reason of [A]

B) Both [A] and [R] are true and [R] is not the correct reason 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 2017 (GS Paper I)