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SSC CHSL 2020 PYQ — Question 50

SSC CHSL - 14th October 2020 - Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q50

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During India's struggle for independence, who among the following became the President of the All India States People’s Conference in 1939?

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Correct answer: A

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The correct answer is option 1 i.e Jawaharlal Nehru.

  • The All India States Peoples' Conference (AISPC) was a conglomeration of political movements in the princely states of the British Raj, which were variously called Praja Mandals or Lok Parishads.
  • The first session- Bombay in December 1927. 
  • The Conference looked to the Indian National Congress for support, but Congress was reluctant to provide it until 1939, when Jawaharlal Nehru became its president, serving in this position till 1946.