India’s hopes for retaining (A) the right to implement data negotiators (B) laws remain alive as Indian localisation (C) declined to agree to the e-commerce chapter (D) of RCEP agreement.

In the given sentence, ’localisation and negotiators’ in their current position are incorrect as they are not adding reasonable meaning to the sentence. But interchanging them will make the given sentence both grammatically and contextually correct. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option 1.