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Which prominent labour leader and freedom fighter organized the historic mill workers' strike at the Rajnandgaon Bengal Nagpur Cotton (BNC) Mill in 1920, which is celebrated as one of the earliest successful organized labor strikes in India?
A. Thakur Pyarelal Singh✓ Correct Answer
B. Pandit Sundarlal Sharma
C. Ghanshyam Singh Gupta
D. Yatindra Mohan Sinha
💡 Solution & Explanation
Thakur Pyarelal Singh organized the historic thirty-seven-day strike of workers at the BNC Mill in Rajnandgaon in 1920, demanding better working conditions, reduced working hours, and fair wages. The successful strike established him as a pioneer of the trade union movement in central India and brought labor issues to the forefront of the nationalist agenda in Chhattisgarh. He remained a guiding figure for peasant and worker mobilizations throughout the freedom struggle.
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