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Who is known as the father of the nation of indian national congress?

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Hint:1. The Indian National Congress has widespread origins as a political party in India. 2.Established in 1885, in Asia and Africa, it was the first modern nationalist movement to arise in the British Empire.
3.Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. Congress led India to independence.

Complete answer:
1) Gandhiji is the father of the nation.
2) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also recognised as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian advocate, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicalist, who used nonviolent resistance to lead the popular fight for the independence of India from British rule, and influenced civil rights and freedom movements around the world in turn.
3) In 1920, Gandhi took the leadership of the Congress and began to intensify demands before the Indian National Congress declared India's independence on 26 January 1930. The Britains did not accept the declaration, but talks continued, with Congress playing a part in the late 1930s in the provincial government. When the Viceroy war was declared in September 1939, without consultation, Gandhi and the Congress withdrew their support from the Raj.

Note:1) At the beginning of the 20th century, in the face of relentless resistance from the British government, Congress' demands became more radical, and the party agreed to push for the independence movement, since it would allow a new political structure in which Congress could be a major party.
2) Bal Gangadhar Tilak was popular among extremists, who tried to unite Hindu Indians by appealing to an exclusively Hindu political identity exhibited in the annual public Ganapati festivals he opened in western India.