Q15. With reference to the Indian National Movement, consider the following pairs: Person Position held
- Sir Tej Bahadur SapruPresident, All India Liberal Federation
- K.C. Neogy Member, The Constituent Assembly
- P.C. Joshi General Secretary, Communist Party of India
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: D
- Pair 1 is correctly matched: When the Montague report of 1918 was made public, there was a divide in Congress. The moderates welcomed it while the extremists opposed it. This led to a rift in the Congress with moderate leaders forming the “Indian National Liberal Federation (INLF)” in 1919. INLF was founded by Surendra Nath Banerjee and Tej Bahadur Sapru was chosen as the President of the federation.
- Pair 2 is correctly matched: In 1946, the Cabinet Mission visited India to draft a Constitution for the country. On the basis of the framework provided by the Cabinet Mission, a Constituent Assembly was constituted on 9th December 1946 which was a fully sovereign body. It elected Dr Rajendra Prasad as the first President of India. Kshitish Chandra Neogy, an Indian politician from West Bengal, was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.
- Pair 3 is correctly matched: The Communist Party of India was formed on 26 December 1925 at the first Party Conference in Kanpur. Cawnpore. S.V. Ghate was appointed the first General Secretary of CPI. The scattered Communist Group again met in Surat in late 1935 and chose P.C. Joshi as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
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