Multiple choice

Chandrashekhar Azad was an active member of “Hindustan Republican Association”. What was this organisation’s main aim?

  1. Avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai and other freedom fighters

  2. An independent India with equal rights and opportunity to everyone without discrimination of caste, creed, religion or social status

  3. Indian independence by hook or by crook

  4. Non-cooperation movement against British
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Chandrashekhar Azad committed himself to achieving complete independence by any means. Azad also believed that India's future lay in socialism. He met a young revolutionary, Pranvesh Chatterji, who introduced him to Ram Prasad Bismil who had formed the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), a revolutionary organisation. Azad was impressed with the aim of HRA, i.e. an independent India with equal rights and opportunity to everyone without discrimination of caste, creed, religion or social status. 

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