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SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 38

SSC CGL - 01 Dec 2022 - Shift 4 • General Awareness • Q38

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The Revolutionary Socialist Party was established in ____.

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. 1940

  1. The party was founded on 19 March 1940 by Tridib Chaudhuri and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
  2. The party got around 0.4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok Sabha elections in 1999 and 2004. It is part of the Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front (Tripura) and Congress-led United Democratic Front (Kerala).
  3. Origins of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), by Buddhadeva Bhattacharya (1982).