How many statements are correct among the given statements?
a) Gandhiji did not celebrate Independence Day by hoisting a flag but by keeping a 24-hour fast.
b) At the initiative of Gandhiji and Nehru, Congress passed a resolution on “the rights of minorities".
c) Congress immediately accepted the Two Nation Theory proposed by the Muslim League.
d) The Congress wished to assure the minorities in India that it will continue to protect, to the best of its ability, their citizen rights against aggression.

3

In the question, 4 statements are given and it is asked how many statements are correct; 1, 2, 3, or 4 (not which one is correct or incorrect).

According to the question:

Statements- a, b, and d are correct (so the correct answer is 3 as total of 3 statements are correct out  of 4).

"C" is the incorrect statement as Congress never accepted the Two Nation Theory proposed by the Muslim League.

Mahatma Gandhi was not present at the festivities in the capital on 15 August 1947. He was in Calcutta, but he did not attend any function or hoist a flag there either. Gandhiji marked the day with a 24-hour fast. The freedom he had struggled so long for had come at an unacceptable price, with a nation divided and Hindus and Muslims at each other’s throats.

At the initiative of Gandhiji and Nehru, the Congress now passed a resolution on “the rights of minorities”. The party had never accepted the “two-nation theory”:  forced against its will to accept Partition, it still believed that “India is a land of many religions and many races, and must remain so”. Whatever be the situation in Pakistan, India would be “a democratic secular State where all citizens enjoy full rights and are equally entitled to the protection of the State, irrespective of
the religion to which they belong”. The Congress wished to “assure the minorities in India that it will continue to protect, to the best of its ability, their citizen rights against aggression”