Question

Read the following passage and answer questions 12 to 14:

"Patel, the organizational man of the Congress, wanted to purge the Congress of other political groups and sought to make of it a cohesive and disciplined political party. He ... sought to take the Congress away from its all-embracing character and tum it into a close-knit party of disciplined cadres. Being are list he looked more for discipline than for taking too romantic a view of "earning on the movement," Patel's idea of transforming the Congress into a strictly political party with a single ideology and·tight discipline showed an equal lack of understanding of the eclectic role that the Congress, as a government, was to be called upon to perform in the decades to follow." - Rnjni Kotel c -1

Why does the author think that Congress should not have been a cohesive and disciplined party? 

Options

• Because she wanted to take the Congress away from its all-embracing character and not turn it into a close-knit party of disciplined cadres.

• Because she wanted to take the Congress away from its all-embracing character and turn it into a close knit party of disciplined caders. 

• Congress party represented a rainbow like social coalition representing diversity of India including various castes, religions and languages. 

• None of these 

Answer 1

Because she wanted to take the Congress away from its all-embracing character and not turn it into a close-knit party of disciplined cadres.

Explanation:

She intended to turn the Congress into a tight-knit group of disciplined caders, away from its all-encompassing nature.