HISTORY
INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
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Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel
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Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad
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Acharya J. B. Kripalani and C. Rajagopalachari
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad. Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad were official Congress negotiators for Cripps Mission.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cripps was sent to negotiate an agreement with the nationalist Congress leaders (including Gandhi), and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, who claimed to represent the Muslim population of the subcontinent.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Indian National Congress was not convinced with the Cripps Proposals and their promise of awarding India with a dominion status or self-governance. Gandhi went on to call the Cripps Proposals a ‘post-dated cheque’.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cripps Mission was sent by the British government to India in March 1942 to obtain Indian cooperation for the British war efforts in the 2nd World War. It was headed by Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, a labour minister in Winston Churchill’s coalition government in Britain.