Question

Chetoor Shankaran Nair became the President of Indian National Congress in ?

• A. 1897
• B. 1898
• C. 1879
• D. 1877

Answer 1

Answer:

A. 1897

Chetoor Sankaran Nair

• Chetoor Sankaran Nair, a native of Palakkad, is the only Malayali to have held the post of President of the Indian National Congress.

• He was elected as the President at the Amaravati session of 1897.

• He resigned from the Viceroy's Executive Council in protest at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

• He expressed strong disagreement with Gandhian methods of struggle and wrote a book called 'Gandhi and Anarchy'.