Choose the leaders who identified themselves as 'socialists'.
A. Rajendra Prasad
B. Sardar Patel
C. N.G. Ranga
D. Jaya Prakash Narayan
E. Narendra Dev
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → C, D, E only
A. Rajendra Prasad Incorrect. Rajendra Prasad led the conservatives in the Congress who, worried by Nehru’s socialist rhetoric, threatened to resign from the Working Committee.
B. Sardar Patel Incorrect. Patel was the other leader of the conservatives, alongside Rajendra Prasad.
C. N.G. Ranga Correct. Nehru, increasingly influenced by socialism, began working closely with the socialists – Jayaprakash Narayan, Narendra Dev, N.G. Ranga and others. In the Constituent Assembly Ranga was described as a socialist who had led the peasant movement.
D. Jaya Prakash Narayan Correct. Jayaprakash Narayan is the first of the socialists named with Nehru.
E. Narendra Dev Correct. Narendra Dev is named among them as well.
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