The Civil Disobedience Movement had been led in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) by

A Sheikh Mohammed Tyabji
B Dr. M. A. Ansari
C Badruddin Tyabji
D Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Correct Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Ghaffar Khan was arrested and sent to jail, the first of many spells of incarceration he endured in British India and then in Pakistan, totalling 27 years. The defining moment for Ghaffar Khan and the Pakhtuns he led was the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930.
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