With reference to the Workers and Peasant's Party (WPP), consider the following statements. 1. It was formed in 1928 as an all-India party. 2. All communists were its members. 3. It worked outside the Indian National Congress. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
With reference to the Workers and Peasant's Party (WPP), consider the following statements. 1. It was formed in 1928 as an all-India party. 2. All communists were its members. 3. It worked outside the Indian National Congress. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Correct Answer 1 and 2 only
The correct answer is 1 and 2 only.
Important Points
- Workers‘ and Peasants‘ Party (WPP) became an all-India party in 1928. Hence statement 1 is correct.
- It was the merger of following provincial organizations -
- The Labour-Swaraj Party of the Indian National Congress organized by Muzaffar Ahmed, Qazi Nazrul Islam, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, and others in Bengal in November 1925.
- Congress Labour Party was formed in Bombay and a Kirti-Kisan Party in Punjab in late 1926.
- A Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan of Madras -1923.
- Thus, by 1928 all of these provincial organizations had been renamed as the Workers‘ and Peasants‘ Party (WPP), whose units were also set up in Rajasthan, UP and Delhi.
- It was the merger of following provincial organizations -
- All Communists were members of this party. Hence statement 2 is correct.
- The basic objective of the WPPs was to work within the Congress to give it a more radical orientation and make it the party of the people‘ and independently organize workers and peasants in class organizations, to enable first the achievement of complete independence and ultimately of socialism. Hence statement 3 is not correct.
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