King mahendra was a ambitious king

As clever and ambitious King Mahendra was, he was equally adept at using people to pursue his interests. He had adopted a policy of wooing and cowing influential Congress leaders, and of using them and casting them off once they outlived their utility.

the answer would be logic.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts