2017 · Q35
Statement IThe Communists left the All India Trade Union Congress in 1931.
Statement IIBy 1928, the Communists were no longer working with the mainstream national movement.
General KnowledgeHistory of India
- ABoth the statements are individually true and Statement II; is the correct explanation of Statement I
- BBoth the statements lie individually true but Statement II is not the correct explanation of Statement I
- CStatement I is true but Statement II is false
- DStatement I is false but Statement II is true
Explanation
Statement I is true: in 1931 the communists walked out of the All India Trade Union Congress over ideological differences and formed the rival Red Trade Union Congress. Statement II is true: by 1928 the communists had distanced themselves from the mainstream Congress-led national movement, a rupture deepened by colonial repression such as the Meerut Conspiracy Case of 1929. This estrangement from the mainstream movement is what underlay the 1931 split in the trade-union movement. Both statements are true and II is the correct explanation of I.