Assertion (A): During nitration of aniline significant amount of meta-nitroaniline is formed.
Reason (R): In the strongly acidic medium, aniline is protonated to form the anilinium ion which is meta directing.

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During nitration aniline abstracts proton from H₂SO₄ and is converted into anilinium ion. $- \overset{+}{N} H_{3}$ is meta directing group.

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