Question

write a newspaper report on the simon commission ​

Answer 1

Answer:

In 1927, the British Government appointed a seven-member commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. It was to report about the extent to which the Act of 1919 had worked out successfully. It was to examine the functioning of the constitutional system in India. This Commission was boycotted by the Indians as it had not a single Indian member. It was welcomed with black flags and slogans of “Simon go back” when it landed in India. At Lahore, a procession taken out under the leadership of Lala Lajpat Rai was lathi-charged and he was fatally wounded in 1928.

The Simon Commission led to Jawaharlal Nehru demanding “Poorna Swaraj” at the Lahore Session of the Congress. The Nehru Report was also a reaction to this Commission and it gave Gandhiji an opportunity to start his Civil Disobedience Movement in India.

Answer 2

Answer: Simon commission:

1. It was constituted by the Tory government in Britain under Sir John Simon.
2. The objective of the commission was to look into the functioning of the constitutional system in India and suggest changes.
3. But nationalists in India opposed the commission because the commission had not a single Indian member .They all were the British.
4. Therefore, when the Simon commission arrived in India in 1928, it was greeted with the slogan "go back Simon".