Correct Answer - Option 4 : Acharya Narendra Dev
The correct answer is Acharya Narendra Dev
Acharya Narendra Dev (1889-1956)
- Freedom fighter and founding President of the Congress Socialist Party; jailed several times during the freedom movement;
- Active in peasants’ movement; a scholar of Buddhism;
- After independence led the Socialist Party and later the Praja Socialist Party
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956):
- Leader of the anti-caste movement and the struggle for justice to the Dalits; scholar and intellectual; founder of Independent Labour Party;
- Later founded the Scheduled Castes Federation; planned the formation of the Republican Party of India; Member of Viceroy’s Executive Council during the Second World War;
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Chairman, Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly; Minister in Nehru’s first cabinet after Independence; resigned in 1951 due to differences over the Hindu Code Bill;
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Adopted Buddhism in 1956, with thousands of followers.
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (1894-1954):
- Congress leader from U.P.; Minister in U.P. in 1937 and again in 1946; Minister for Communications in the first ministry of free India; Food and Agriculture Minister, 1952-54.
A.K. Gopalan (1904-1977):
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A Communist leader from Kerala, worked as a Congress worker initially;
- Joined the Communist Party in 1939; after the split in the Communist Party in 1964, joined the CPI (M) and worked for strengthening the party;
- Respected as a parliamentarian; Member of Parliament from 1952.
