Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who is founder of Indian National Congress

  1. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

  2. Surendranath Banerjee

  3. Allan Octavian Hume

  4. Joseph Hume
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Explanation

Allan Octavian Hume (A.O. Hume), a British civil servant, founded the Indian National Congress in 1885. While Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president, Hume was the principal founder who envisioned the organization as a platform for educated Indian voices. Joseph Hume is a distractor - a different British politician altogether.

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