Question

Who gave the famous slogan "Simon Commission Go Back"?
(A) Lala Lajput Rai
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Sardar Balabh Bhai Patel
(D) Bhagat Singh

Answer 1

The slogan was given by Lala Lajpat Rai.

• He was an Indian author as well as a freedom fighter.
• He had a significant role in the Indian freedom movement.
• He gave the slogan in the year 1928.
• This was while protesting in a non-violent march against the Britishers.
• During the protest, they also carried black flags.
• Lala Ji was seriously hurt during a lathi charge by the British during the march, and he eventually passed away from his wounds.

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Answer 2

Answer: Simon Commission Go Back was the famous slogan given by Lala Lajput Rai.

Explanation:

• Lala Lajpat Rai (born 1865 in Dhudike, India; died November 17, 1928 in Lahore, Pakistan),
• Indian writer and politician, advocated anti-British nationalism in the Congress Party and led the Hindu supremacy movement.
• After studying law at Lahore's Government College, Lajpat Rai practiced in Hissar and Lahore, where he helped found the nationalistic Dayananda Anglo-Vedic School and became a devotee of Dayananda Sarasvati, founder of the hardline Hindu Arya Samaj.
• Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay, Burma (now Myanmar) in May 1907 after joining the Congress Party and engaging in political agitation in the Punjab. In November,
• Lord Minto concluded there wasn't enough evidence to hold him for subversion.
• Lajpat Rai's followers tried to elect him president of the party session in Surat in December 1907, but pro-British elements rejected, and the party split over the problems.
• Lajpat Rai created the Indian Home Rule League of America in New York City during World War I. In 1920, he returned to India and led a Congress Party session that inaugurated Gandhi's noncooperation agitation.
• After serving time (1921-1923), he was elected to the legislature. In 1928, he proposed boycotting the British Simon Commission on constitutional reform. After being attacked by police in Lahore, he died.

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