In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: In the countryside, the protest movements were sometimes carried out in defiance of the local nationalist leadership.
Reason: In February 1922, a group of peasants attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri Chaura, and several constables perished in the conflagration.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.

Reason: In the countryside Peasants, workers, and others interpreted and acted upon the call to “non-cooperate” with the colonial rule in ways that best suited their interests, rather than conform to the dictates laid down from above.