Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 1

The correct answer is 1907.

• Radicals and Moderates were divided in 1907. The Moderates were opposed to the use of boycott. They felt that it involved the use of force.

• In 1907, Surat Session,
• The two main objectives placed by the extremists were that:
  • Demand for the resolution of Swaraj.
  • Lala Lajpat Rai to be made the President of the INC.
• These two demands were not acceptable to the moderates.
• Thus, instead of Lala Lajpat Rai, the moderates supported the idea of Rash Behari Ghosh as the President.