Assertion (A): Belgium and India have ‘holding together’ federation.

Reason (R): A big country divides power between constituent states and the nation's government.

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

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

(A) is true but (R) is false

(A) is false but (R) is true

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Both Assertion and Reason are true, and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
"Holding together" federalism is adopted by Belgium, Spain, India, etc. In this federalism, power is divided among different levels. The Indian Constitution states the precise distribution of legislative power between the state government and the union government. These folds are the Union list, State list, and Concurrent list. The Union list includes matters of national interest. The State list includes issues of state interest. The Concurrent list consists of the interests of the union government as well as the state government. Similarly, in Belgium, the power is divided according to the language.

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