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UPSC 1996: Who among the following suggested the winding up of the Indian National Congress after India attained independence?
(a)C. Rajagopalachari
(b)Acharya Kripalani
(c)Mahatma Gandhi
(d)Jayaprakash Narain
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In his note of 27 January 1948—published posthumously as “His Last Will and Testament”—Mahatma Gandhi wrote that the Congress had ‘outlived its use’ in its existing form and should be dissolved into a Lok Sevak Sangh, i.e., he proposed winding up the Indian National Congress after independence. ([cpim.org](https://cpim.org/historical-debates-independence-and-partition-india/?utm_source=openai))
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