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Q. Who said “The Simmon Commission Report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish”?

A
Shivaswami Iyer
B
Mahatma Gandhi
C
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
D
Jawaharlal Nehru

Correct Answer

Shivaswami Iyer

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