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Indian National Congress (Part-I)

📆 October 17, 2024

Total Questions: 40

31. "Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it"—This statement is concerned with: [42nd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1997, Uttarakhand P.C.S. (Mains) 2006]

Correct Answer: (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Solution:Tilak proclaimed vigorously, "Swaraj is my birthright, I shall have it" in the Lucknow session of INC, 1916. Extremists joined Congress again in this session, and the 'Lucknow Pact' was signed by the efforts of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and M.A. Jinnah. It is famous as the 'Congress-League Agreement.'

32. Who said, "Swaraj is my birthright, I will have it"? [53rd to 55th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2011]

Correct Answer: (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Solution:Tilak proclaimed vigorously, "Swaraj is my birthright, I shall have it" in the Lucknow session of INC, 1916. Extremists joined Congress again in this session, and the 'Lucknow Pact' was signed by the efforts of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and M.A. Jinnah. It is famous as the 'Congress-League Agreement.'

33. Who among the following said, "Swaraj is our birthright"? [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2015]

Correct Answer: (c) B.G. Tilak
Solution:Tilak proclaimed vigorously, "Swaraj is my birthright, I shall have it" in the Lucknow session of INC, 1916. Extremists joined Congress again in this session, and the 'Lucknow Pact' was signed by the efforts of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and M.A. Jinnah. It is famous as the 'Congress-League Agreement.'

34. Consider the following statements about the Indian National Congress: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2000]

  1. Sarojini Naidu was the first woman to be the President of the Congress.
  2.  C.R. Das was in prison when he functioned as the President of the Congress.
  3.  The first Britisher to become the President of the Congress was Allan Octavian Hume.
  4.  Alfred Webb was the President of the Congress in 1894.
Correct Answer: (b) 2 and 4
Solution:The first lady president of Indian National Congress was Annie Besant, who presided over the Calcutta session of 1917. A.O. Hume was the founder of Indian National Congress, but he was never the President of Congress. He was appointed as general secretary of INC. C.R. Das presided over the 1922 Gaya session. C.R. Das was nominated as the president for the 1921 Ahmedabad session, but as he was then in prison, Hakim Ajmal Khan presided over, and Das acted as president from prison. Alfred Webb was the president of the 1894 Madras session of Congress.

35. Who said that "Congress Movement was neither inspired by the people, nor devised or [47th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2005]

Correct Answer: (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Solution:In an Article, Lala Lajpat Rai wrote that "Congress movement was neither inspired by the people nor advised or planned by them."

36. "The Indian National Congress was founded on the basis of safety valve theory, to protect the British Government from threats." Which leader said that? [69th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2023]

Correct Answer: (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
Solution:Safety valve theory was used by the extremist leader Lala Lajpat Rai in "Young India." He considered Congress to be the brainchild of Dufferin. He believed that the British would use the Congress organization to protect the British government from threats.

37. "The Congress is faltering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise." This declaration was made by: [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2002, U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2002]

Correct Answer: (b) Lord Curzon
Solution:British think tanks assumed that Congress, under the guidance of moderates, was a weak political institution which had no trust of Indians, so it would be devastated easily. The policy was provoked by Lord Curzon vigorously. He declared in 1900 that "The Congress is faltering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise."

38. While delivering the presidential address, the Congress President who advocated the introduction of Roman script for the Hindi language was: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2000]

Correct Answer: (d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Solution:While delivering the Presidential address in 1938, Subhash Chandra Bose advocated the introduction of Roman script for the Hindi language. Subhash Chandra Bose presided over the Haripura session of INC in 1938. He was an Indian nationalist leader who was a key figure in the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule. He was born on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa. In 1920, he passed the civil service examination, but in April 1921, after hearing of the nationalist turmoil in India, he resigned from his position. Bose then joined the Indian National Congress and actively participated in the Indian independence movement. Bose at first worked with C.R. Das in Bengal, under whose mentorship he flowered. He was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress for two consecutive terms but resigned from the post following ideological conflicts with Mahatma Gandhi. In 1939, he formed the Forward Bloc, an organization aimed at unifying all the anti-British forces in India.

39. Who among the following suggested the winding up of the Indian National Congress after India attained independence? [Uttarakhand P.C.S. (Pre) 2005, U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl) (Pre) 2004, I.A.S. (Pre) 1996]

Correct Answer: (c) Mahatma Gandhi
Solution:Mahatma Gandhi suggested the winding up of the Indian National Congress after India got independence. Q39
Mahatma Gandhi Movements: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat. He earned a degree in law from England in 1891. Before entering Indian politics in 1915, he was in South Africa from 1893 to 1914. In the course of his struggle in South Africa, he developed his political philosophy based on non-violence and Satyagraha to give a new direction to the mass movement. The emergence of Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics marked the beginning of a new phase in the Indian national movement, the phase of mass movements. This made Gandhi become the most important figure in the history of the Indian freedom struggle.

40. Who of the following were elected to collaborate with Mahatma Gandhi, who was to author the new Constitution of the Congress as per the resolution of the Indian National Congress at Amritsar Session, 1919? [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2014]

  1. B.G. Tilak
  2. N.C. Kelkar
  3. C.R. Das
  4. I.B. Sen
    Select the correct answer from the code given below:
Correct Answer: (a) 2 and 4
Solution:For writing the Constitution of Congress, Gandhiji wanted the cooperation of B.G. Tilak and C.R. Das, but as they were overloaded with work and were not available to serve the purpose, their juniors N.C. Kelkar and I.B. Sen replaced them and helped Gandhi to write the Constitution of Congress.
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