Bhai Parmanand , whose 150th birth anniversary falls on 4 November, was a founding member of which organisation?

The correct answer is the Ghadar Party, of which Bhai Parmanand was one of the founding members. His 150th birth anniversary falls on 4 November. His ideals drew heavily on his close association with the Arya Samaj, for whose work he travelled to South Africa in the opening years of the twentieth century and met Mahatma Gandhi there; he also worked among the Girmitiya community in Guyana, then an important centre of the Arya Samaj. He is said to have persuaded Lala Har Dayal to go to America. His influence on the freedom struggle was such that the British sentenced him to Kala Pani in the Andamans, an imprisonment he wrote about in his memoir. After the sentence he turned to education and taught Veer Bhagat Singh, and in later years he was associated with the Hindu Mahasabha. The other options are wrong, as he was not a founder of the Forward Bloc, the Anushilan Samiti or the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.