Consider the following statements:
Statement I: In the 1940s, the Indian National Congress was reconstituted on linguistic lines.
Statement II: Its provincial units followed the logic of language, one for Marathi speakers and another for Oriya speakers.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Statement I: In the 1940s, the Indian National Congress was reconstituted on linguistic lines. — Incorrect. The Congress was reconstituted on linguistic lines in the 1920s. The decade of the 1940s makes the statement wrong.
Statement II: Its provincial units followed the logic of language, one for Marathi speakers and another for Oriya speakers. — Correct. After that change, the provincial units of the Congress followed the logic of language, one for Marathi speakers and another for Oriya speakers.
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