Question

Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress?

• A. It was formed in 1885
• B. W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress.
• C. It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay.
• D. Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India.

Answer 1

The correct option is D Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India.

The founder of Indian National Congress Allan Octavian Hume, was not a retired British professor in India. Allan Octavian Hume, (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India.