Who among the following gave the slogan "Freedom is my birthright and I will have it"?
- A.Mahatma Gandhi
- B.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- C.Bipin Chandra Pal
- D.Lala Lajpat Rai
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The Maratha leader, called Lokmanya and described by the British as the father of Indian unrest, declared that swaraj was his birthright and that he would have it, and the sentence became the rallying cry of the extremist wing of the Congress in the first decade of the twentieth century. Option A, Mahatma Gandhi, entered Indian politics only in 1915 and his own calls were Do or Die and Quit India, both of 1942. Option C, Bipin Chandra Pal, and option D, Lala Lajpat Rai, were Tilak's two partners in the famous trio Lal, Bal and Pal, which is exactly why they are placed here as distractors; they shared his politics but not this line. Tilak also founded the newspapers Kesari and Maratha and began the public Ganapati and Shivaji festivals to carry politics to ordinary people.
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