11. Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress? A.It was formed in 1885 B.W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress C.It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay D.Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India
Option D Solution: Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead in the Indian independence movement. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian ornithology".
