With reference to Indian National Movement, consider the following pairs:
| Person | Position held | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru | President, All India Liberal Federation |
| 2. | K. C. Neogy | Member, The Constituent Assembly |
| 3. | P. C. Joshi | General Secretary, Communist Party of India |
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3
All three pairs are correct in UPSC's key. K. C. Neogy was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Bengal; the other two details are not explained here because we could not confirm them from an official source.
- ✓ 1. Moderates who left the Congress formed the (Indian) National Liberal Federation in 1918-19. UPSC's official key treats this pair as correct; we could not confirm the detail about its presidency from an official source, so we do not explain it here.
- ✓ 2. Kshitish Chandra Neogy was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Bengal on a Congress ticket; he later sat in Nehru's first cabinet and chaired the First Finance Commission (1951).
- ✓ 3. UPSC's official key treats this pair as correct; we could not confirm the detail from an official source, so we do not explain it here.
Remember · Liberal Federation (1919, moderates); K. C. Neogy - Constituent Assembly member, 1st Finance Commission chairman.
📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 12 Politics in India since Independence, Ch 2 (practise this chapter)
Sources
- Constitution of India (CLPR): Constituent Assembly Members – K.C. Neogy ↗ · reference work “Neogy was elected to the Indian Constituent Assembly from the Bengal province as a member of the Indian National Congress.”
- People's Democracy (CPI(M) weekly), 15 April 2007: Birth Centenary of P.C. Joshi ↗ · reference work “APRIL 14, 2007 marks the birth centenary of P. C. Joshi who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, after the all-India Party Centre was set-up in 1934-35.”
- NCERT Class 12 · Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 2 “A. K. Gopalan, S.A. Dange, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, P.C. Joshi, Ajay Ghosh and P. Sundarraya were among the notable leaders of the CPI.”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2019, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 1 Oct 2026 (how we verify). ·