With respect to the Tripuri Session of the Indian National Congress, 1939, consider the following statements:
1. Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the Session's President.
2. A resolution was moved by Govind Ballabh Pant, reaffirming faith in the Gandhian policies.
3. Subhash Chandra Bose was not in favour of giving a six-month ultimatum to Britain to grant the national demand of independence.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
1 and 2 only
Correct Answer2 and 3 only
Incorrect Answer1 and 3 only
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
Explanation:
In March, 1939, the Congress Session took place at Tripuri, in the Central Provinces (near Jabalpur in present Madhya Pradesh). Subhash Chandra Bose was ill when the Tripuri Session took place, but he attended it and in his Presidential speech he prophesised that an imperialist war was about to take place in Europe. He was in favour of giving a six-month ultimatum to Britain to grant the national demand of independence; if the ultimatum was rejected, he said, a mass Civil Disobedience Movement should be
launched. Gandhi, on the other hand, was firm in the belief that it was not the time for such ultimatums, as neither the Congress nor the masses were yet ready for struggle.
A resolution was moved by Govind Ballabh Pant, reaffirming faith in Gandhian policies and asking Bose to nominate the Working Committee “in accordance with the wishes of Gandhiji”. Bose resigned from the President’s post in April, 1939. This led to the election of Rajendra Prasad as the President of the Congress. In May, Bose and his followers formed the Forward Bloc (at Makur, Unnao) as a new party within the Congress.
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