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BPSC – Combined Competitive Examination · Question 11

Who started the 'secret (Congress) radio' during the Quit India Movement?

  1. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
  2. Sucheta Kripalani
  3. Annie Besant
  4. Usha Mehta
  5. None of the above / More than one of the above
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Answer: (D) Usha Mehta

Explanation

Congress Radio first broadcast on 14 August 1942 and was run by Usha Mehta and associates.

  • (A) Incorrect

    Wrong: a poet and satyagrahi.

  • (B) Incorrect

    Wrong: worked underground, but not the radio founder.

  • (C) Incorrect

    Wrong: she died in 1933.

  • (D) Correct

    Correct: Usha Mehta ran the underground Congress Radio from Bombay in 1942.

  • (E) Incorrect

    Wrong: only one of the options A–D is correct.