Consider the following statements about Gandhiji and choose the correct statements.
(A) Gandhiji represented the Indian National Congress at the second Round Table Conference.
(B) Quit India Movement was Gandhi's third major movement against British rule.
(C) Quit India Movement has been described by many scholars as Gandhiji’s “finest hour”.
(D) Gandhiji published his collection of letters as ‘A Bunch of Old Letters’.
(E) The Time Magazine compared Gandhiji's martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A), (B), (C) Only
(2) (A), (B), (D) Only
(3) (A), (C), (D) Only
(4) (A), (B), (E) Only

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A second Round Table Conference was held in London in the latter part of 1931. Here, Gandhiji represented the Congress. However, his claims that his party represented all of India came under challenge from three parties: from the Muslim League, which claimed to stand for the interests of the Muslim minority; from the Princes, who claimed that the Congress had no stake in their territories; and from the brilliant lawyer and thinker B.R. Ambedkar, who argued that Gandhiji and the Congress did not really represent the lowest castes.

After the failure of the Cripps Mission, Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch his third major movement against British rule. This was the “Quit India” campaign, which began in August 1942.

Many scholars have written of the months after Independence as being Gandhiji’s “finest hour”. After working to bring peace to Bengal, Gandhiji now shifted to Delhi, from where he hoped to move on to the riot-torn districts of Punjab. While in the capital, his meetings were disrupted by refugees who objected to readings from the Koran or shouted slogans asking why he did not speak of the sufferings of those Hindus and Sikhs still living in Pakistan

Nehru edited a collection of letters written to him during the national movement and published A Bunch of Old Letters.

Gandhiji’s death led to an extraordinary outpouring of grief, with rich tributes being paid to him from across the political spectrum in India, and moving appreciations coming from such international figures as George Orwell and Albert Einstein. Time magazine, which had once mocked Gandhiji’s physical size and seemingly non-rational ideas, now compared his martyrdom to that of Abraham Lincoln: it was a bigoted American who had killed Lincoln for believing that human beings were equal regardless of their race or skin colour; and it was a bigoted Hindu who had killed Gandhiji for believing that friendship was possible, indeed necessary, between Indians of different faiths. In this respect, as Time wrote, “The world knew that it had, in a sense too deep, too simple for the world to understand, connived at his (Gandhiji’s) death as it had connived at Lincoln’s.”