Question

The youngest President of the Indian National Congress, who held that office at the age of 35, was
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Subhash Chandra Bose
C. Annie Besant
D. Abul Kalam Azad

Answer 1

Hint:
He was Independent India’s first education minister.
He was also posthumously awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’, India's highest civilian honour, in 1992.
Elected as the President of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and 1940.

Complete answer:
Jawaharlal Nehru: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, into a rich Kashmiri Brahman Family in Allahabad. He was elected as the president of the Indian National Congress in 1929. It is an incorrect option as he became the president of INC at the age of 40.

Subhash Chandra Bose: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa. In 1938, he was elected as the president of the Indian National Congress. He was re-elected in 1939 but soon resigned from the presidency. It is an incorrect option as when he first held the office at the age of 42.

Annie Besant: Annie Besant was born on October 1, 1847, in London. On November 16, 1893, she first came to India. In 1917, she presided over the Calcutta session of INC and became the first woman president of Indian National Congress. It is also an incorrect option as she became the president of INC at an old age.

Abul Kalam Azad : On November 11, 1888, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in Mecca. Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin was the real name of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who was popularly known as Maulana Azad.
During the freedom struggle of India, he was one of the most influential independence activists. He was an eminent writer, poet and journalist and was also accomplished in many languages viz. Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Bengali.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a well-known political leader of the Indian National Congress and was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and 1940.
He became the youngest President of the Indian National Congress, who held that office at the age of 35.
Despite being a Muslim, he often stood against the radicalizing policies of other important Muslim leaders like Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
He was an excellent debater, as indicated by his name, Abul Kalam, meaning "Lord of dialogue" and adopted the pen name Azad as a mark of his mental liberation from a narrow view of religion and life.

Therefore the correct answer is D

Note
One of the most important works of Azad is Ghubar-e-Khatir (Sallies of Mind) which was written from 1942 to 1946 when he was imprisoned in Ahmednagar Fort in Maharashtra by the British Raj.

He wrote it addressing his close friend Maulana Habibur Rahman Khan Sherwani. The book was basically a collection of 24 letters he wrote. These letters were never sent to him because there was no permission for that during the imprisonment.

But after the release in 1946, he gave all those letters to his friend Ajmal Khan who published it for the first time in 1946.