Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Bose received support from socialists and communists in the 1939 presidential election, yet this did not produce a lasting Left-led reorganisation of Congress. Which one of the following best explains this outcome?

  1. The Left accepted the proposed federation and therefore abandoned its opposition to Gandhi.
  2. Electoral support for Bose did not imply readiness to split Congress; an unconsolidated Left feared becoming a splinter group outside the principal organisation of the national struggle.
  3. Bose voluntarily accepted a Working Committee selected entirely by Gandhi and withdrew his demand for immediate struggle.
  4. Socialists and communists concluded that British participation in an approaching European war made anti-imperialist action unnecessary.
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