Read the following passage and answer the questions.In the next Congre

Read the following passage and answer the questions.In the next Congress session (1905), the extremist Nationalists led by Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pai and Lala Lajapat Rai were in favour of extending the movement to the rest of India and to demand for full fledged freedom or ‘Swaraj’. Bal Gangadhar Tilak gave the famous slogan, “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.” They wanted to move away from the earlier strategy of submitting petitions to government to mobilising the masses against the British rule and forcing the British to give up and go. They called the earlier strategy as ‘mendicancy’ (or begging for alms). The old leaders, called ‘Moderate nationalists’.1) Name any two extremists.2) What is meant by ‘Swaraj’?3) What is the slogan of Tilak?4) How did they call the policy of moderates?5) What did the moderates do?

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1) Tilak, Bipin Chandrapal.

2) Swaraj means complete independence.

3) Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.

4) They called it ‘mendicancy’.

5) The moderates tried with petitions.