Question

Choose the correct option considering the following statements.

Statement 1: Lala Lajpat Rai and Jawahar Lal Nehru formed a group known as Swaraj Party.

Statement 2: The incident at Chauri Chaura led to the suspensions of the Non-Cooperation Movement.

• A. Both statements are true.
• B. Both statements are false.
• C. Statement 1 false but statement 2 is true.
• D. Statement 1 is true but statement 2 is false.

Answer 1

The correct option is C Statement 1 false but statement 2 is true.

On 5 February, 1922, an agitated crowd gathered around the police station at Chauri-Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh and set fire to it. Twenty-two policemen, including the station master, died in the incident. After this violence, Mahatma Gandhi announced the suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement. Many top leaders of the country were stunned at this sudden announcement.

Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das formed a separate group within the congress known as the Swaraj Party. They opposed the government’s unjust policies in legislatures.