Simon Commission was greeted with slogan ‘Go back Simon’ at arrival in India. Support this reaction of Indians with arguments.
FOREIGN - SET 3 2016
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Simon commission:
- The new Tory government in Britain constituted a statutory commission under Sir John Simon.
- Set up in response to the nationalist movement.
- The commission was to look in to the functioning of the constitutional system in India and suggest changes.
- The problem was that the commission didn’t have a single Indian member.
- When the Simon Commission arrived in India in1928, it was greeted with the slogan ‘Go back, Simon’.
- All parties, including the Congress and the Muslim League, participated in the demonstrations.
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