47. The second visit of Simon Commission was in?
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The second visit of The Simon Commission was on 30 October, 1928 to Lahore. It was met by protestors led by Lala Lajpat Rai. The following police action lead to many protestors getting injured and death of Lala Lajpat Rai.
The Simon Commission was a British seven-member parliamentary team, led by Sir John Allsebrooke Simon. It first arrived in India in February 1928, to study constitutional reforms in the British ruled India. This study presented the Government of India Act of 1935.
The second visit of the Simon Commission was in 1929.
It became the matter of public discussion due to the formation of the commission by the Viceroy.
There were multiple boycott demonstrations that went around the formation of Simon commission and that was a final step toward independence.