Who among the following were the founders of the "Hind Mazdoor Sabha" established in 1948 ?
A
B. Krishna Pillai, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and K.C. George
B
Jayaprakash Narayan, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and M.N. Roy
C
C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer, K. Kamaraj and Veeresalingam Pantulu
D
Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta
Correct answer
Explanation
The Hind Mazdoor Sabha was founded in 1948 by socialist trade unionists who wanted a labour federation independent of both the Congress-backed INTUC and the Communist-led AITUC. Its founders included Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta, along with R.S. Ruikar and Basawon Singh. The other sets are distractors: B. Krishna Pillai, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and K.C. George were Kerala communists; Deen Dayal Upadhyay was a Jana Sangh leader and M.N. Roy a radical humanist; C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer was the Dewan of Travancore, K. Kamaraj a Congress leader and Veeresalingam Pantulu a social reformer who died in 1919.
Modern Indian HistoryPost-Independence Labour Movements & OrganizationsHind Mazdoor Sabha1948Ashok MehtaT.S. RamanujamG.G. MehtaLabour organizationsSocialist movement