Each of these questions is based on the information given below: 1. Ashish,…

Concept: In a classic 'two rows facing opposite directions' seating puzzle, two rules govern everything. First, two people are opposite each other when they sit in the same numbered seat (column) of the two parallel lines, regardless of which way either line faces. Second, because the men's line faces south and the ladies' line faces north, each line's own left and right are mirrors of the other: the ladies' own right runs the same physical way as the men's own left, and vice versa. Every 'left of'/'right of' clue must be read using that speaker's own line, never a fixed left-to-right reading of the diagram.

Application — deriving the starting arrangement, seat by seat:

1. Sangita sits immediately to Mona's own right, and Mona is at an end of the ladies' line. Only the western end leaves a seat to its right, so Mona is seat 1 (west) and Sangita is seat 2.

2. Preeti sits immediately to Kavita's own left, so among seats 3, 4 and 5, Preeti and Kavita must be consecutive in that order, with Nikita taking whichever seat is left over.

3. Chintu and Nikita are diagonally opposite. In a 5-seat double row, a diagonal pairing only exists between the two end seats of the two lines. That forces Nikita to seat 5 (so Preeti is seat 3 and Kavita is seat 4), and places Chintu at seat 1 of the men's line.

4. Preeti (seat 3) is opposite Dilip, so Dilip occupies seat 3 of the men's line.

5. Binod sits immediately to Dilip's own left. Since the men's line faces south, its own left points toward the eastern end (the mirror image of the ladies' line's own left, which points west). So Binod is one seat east of Dilip — seat 4.

6. Binod is opposite Kavita, and Kavita is indeed at seat 4 — this confirms the mirrored-left reading was the correct one.

7. Eeshan is opposite Sangita (seat 2), so Eeshan takes seat 2 of the men's line, leaving the only remaining seat — seat 5 — for Ashish.

Starting arrangement (seats numbered west to east):

Now apply the three stated interchanges: Sangita swaps with Preeti (both in the ladies' line), Ashish swaps with Eeshan (both in the men's line), and Binod swaps with Kavita — this pair swaps across the two lines, since they were seated opposite each other. Binod moves into Kavita's old seat in the ladies' line, and Kavita moves into Binod's old seat in the men's line; each occupant now takes on the facing direction of the seat they moved into.

Tracing the chain after the interchange:

1. Preeti now sits in seat 2 of the ladies' line. Two seats to her own right — the ladies' line faces north, so its own right runs toward the higher-numbered, eastern seats — lands on seat 4, now occupied by Binod.

2. The seat directly opposite Binod's new seat (seat 4 of the ladies' line) is seat 4 of the men's line, now occupied by Kavita.

3. Two seats to the right of Kavita's new seat: Kavita now sits in the men's line, which faces south, so its own right runs the opposite way — toward the lower-numbered, western seats. Two seats west of seat 4 is seat 2 of the men's line, occupied by Ashish.

Cross-check — the starting arrangement satisfies every clue: Sangita is immediately right of end-seated Mona; Preeti is immediately left of, and Dilip opposite, at seats 3/3; Chintu and Nikita occupy the diagonal end pair (men's seat 1, ladies' seat 5); Binod is immediately left of Dilip by the mirrored (eastward) reading and opposite Kavita at seat 4; Eeshan is opposite Sangita at seat 2. All six conditions hold simultaneously in one, and only one, layout.

Result: the second person to the right of the person opposite the person second to the right of Preeti is Ashish.