UPSC Prelims 2019 · Question 75 of 99
UPSC Prelims 2019 question on Sapru Neogy Joshi Positions
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2019
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectModern History
- TopicPersonalities in Modern History
- DifficultyMedium
- TypeMatch
With reference to Indian National Movement, consider the following pairs:
Person — Position held
1. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru : President, All India Liberal Federation
2. K. C. Neogy : Member, The Constituent Assembly
3. P. C. Joshi : General Secretary, Communist Party of India
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
Show answer
Answer: D. 1, 2 and 3
Verdict
All three pairs are correctly matched → Option (d).
Statement by statement
Pair 1 – CORRECTLY MATCHED: Tej Bahadur Sapru was a prominent Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and politician. When the Montagu report of 1918 was made public, there was a divide in the Congress over it. The moderates welcomed it while the extremists opposed it. This led to a schism in the Congress with moderate leaders forming the 'Indian National Liberal Federation' in 1919. The party (INLF) was founded by Surendra Nath Banarjee and some of its prominent leaders were Tej Bahadur Sapru, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri and M. R. Jayakar.
Pair 2 – CORRECTLY MATCHED: KC Neogy was an Indian politician from West Bengal. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, member of the first Cabinet of independent India and the chairman of the first Finance Commission of India.
Pair 3 – CORRECTLY MATCHED: P. C. Joshi was one of the early leaders of the communist movement in India and served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.