Give the names of two leaders who led the Home Rule Movement in India.

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Two Home Rule Leagues were started in 1915-16, one under the leadership of Lokamanya Tilak and the other under the leadership of Annie Besant, an English admirer of Indian culture and Indian people, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The two Home Rule Leagues worked in cooperation and carried out intense propaganda all over the country in favour of the demand for the grant of Home Rule or self-government to India after the War.

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Which of the following statements related to Home Rule Movement is/ are Incorrect?

1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Bhulabhai Desai were the prominent leaders who joined Home rule agitation started by Tilak.

2. The Tilak’s Home Rule agitation was lossley organized compared to Besant’s league.

3. Although Tilak failed to get congress to approve his scheme of Home Rule league. Besant was successful in this front.

4. New India and commonweal were newspapers used by Tilak to campaign for Home rule.

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