In February 2021 Prime Minister inaugurates which Centenary Celebration?

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Correct — C, Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebration. On 4 February 2021 the Prime Minister inaugurated the year-long Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebrations, marking 100 years of the Chauri Chaura incident of February 1922 (in present-day Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh), where a crowd clashed with police and set a police station on fire. The violence led Mahatma Gandhi to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was in 1919, so its centenary fell in 2019, not February 2021.  (b) The Non-Cooperation Movement began in 1920-21, but the specific programme the PM launched in February 2021 was the Chauri Chaura centenary, not an NCM centenary event.  (d) The Champaran Satyagraha was in 1917, so its centenary was observed in 2017, not 2021.

Concept: The Chauri Chaura incident (February 1922) is a landmark of the freedom struggle: an agitated crowd, part of the Non-Cooperation Movement, torched a police station and killed policemen. Shocked by the violence, Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement, insisting the struggle stay non-violent. The 2021 centenary revived public memory of the event and its martyrs.

State PCS 2020 Q35 — Current Affairs & Sports PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q35 — Current Affairs & Sports PYQ with Answer