The Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress (1929) is very important in history, because 1) The Congress passed a resolution demanding complete independence 2) The rift between the extremists and moderates was resolved in that Session 3) A resolution was passed rejecting the two-nation theory in that Session Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The correct answer is A) 1 only. The Lahore Session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopted the Purna Swaraj resolution, demanding complete independence instead of Dominion Status. It called for 26 January 1930 to be observed as Independence Day. This is the statement that is correct.

• Statement 2 is wrong. The extremist-moderate split came at Surat in 1907. The two groups were brought back together at Lucknow in 1916, when the Congress and Muslim League also signed the Lucknow Pact. Lahore 1929 did not resolve that rift.
• Statement 3 is wrong. The Congress never passed a resolution rejecting the two-nation theory in 1929. The two-nation idea was formally articulated only later, culminating in the Muslim League's Pakistan Resolution of 1940 at Lahore.

Core concept: the shift from Dominion Status (Nehru Report 1928, after the Simon Commission) to Purna Swaraj, which set up the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930. For Mains, this is a useful case study in how the nationalist movement's goals hardened in the late 1920s.

Trap: Lahore 1929 gets remembered for unity and communal debates, so aspirants tick statements 2 or 3 by association. Only the Purna Swaraj resolution belongs to that session.