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Q. __________ made a whirlwind tour of the country in 1916 and in his speeches he said, “Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it.”

A
Mahatma Gandhi
B
Tilak
C
Gokhale
D
Jawaharlal Nehru

Correct Answer

Tilak

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