Who of the following took the passing of resolution on partition on the meeting of the Congress Committee(1947) as a "Surrender of Nationalism in favour of Communalism ?

The correct answer is A, Dr. Kitchlew. Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew, a Punjab Congress leader and a nationalist Muslim who had stayed with the Congress rather than the Muslim League, denounced the All India Congress Committee's June 1947 resolution accepting the partition of India as a surrender of nationalism to communalism.

• Option B (Purushottam Das Tandon): A prominent UP Congress leader and later Congress president in 1950, but he is not the figure associated with this denunciation of the partition resolution.
• Option C (Jawaharlal Nehru): Nehru moved and defended the partition resolution at the AICC. He was its advocate, so he could not be the critic who called it a surrender.
• Option D (G.B. Pant): As UP Premier he backed the Congress decision on the partition plan, so he is not the critic here.

Core concept: The 1947 partition acceptance is a key moment in the Congress's shift from its secular, composite-nationalist stance. For Mains, it links to debates on the Congress and communal politics, and on the Muslim nationalist dissent that was sidelined in the final settlement.

Trap: Aspirants pick Nehru because he moved the resolution. Read the question for who criticised it, not who moved it.