Question

The National Leader who was elected President (Speaker) of the Central Legislative Assembly in 1925 was
1. Motilal Nehru
2. C.R. Das
3. Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Vithalbhai Patel

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Vithalbhai Patel

The correct answer is Vitthalbhai Patel.

• Vithalbhai Patel
  • Vithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, co-founder of the Swaraj Party, and elder brother of Sardar Patel.
  • Vithalbhai Patel was elected President (Speaker) of the Central Legislative Assembly in 1925.
  • In 1914, Vithalbhai played a prominent role in two bills on the Bombay provincial legislative council, "the Bombay District Municipal Act Amendment Bill" and "The Town Planning Bill" in 1914.
  • His most well-known proposal for which he received praise was for the extension of primary education to municipal districts in the Bombay presidency outside of the city of Bombay in 1917.

• Motilal Nehru
  • Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.
  • He also served as the Congress President twice, 1919–1920 and 1928–1929.
  • He was a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.
  • Under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi in 1918, Nehru became one of the first to transform his life to exclude western clothes and material goods, adopting a more native Indian lifestyle.
• C.R. Das
  • Chittaranjan Das was popularly called Deshbandhu (Friend of the Nation), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist, and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party (Independence party) in Bengal during the period of British colonial rule in India.
  • Chittaranjan Das was actively involved in the activities of Anushilan Samiti.
  • Anusilan Samiti was maintained by P. Mitter with the assistance of Chittaranjan Das (1894), Haridas Bose (1895), Suren Haldar (1900), and Jnanendra Nath Roy (1901).
• Vallabhbhai Patel
  • He served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of India.
  • He was an Indian barrister and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress who played a leading role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation.
  • He was one of the conservative members of the Indian National Congress.
  • In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar, meaning "chief" in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian.
  • He acted as Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.