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What led to the split in the congress at the Surat Session held in 1907?
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The important developments at the Surat Session that led to the Split in the Congress were:
- The word 'Swaraj' was uttered for the first time by any Congress President in the Kolkata Session in 1906.
- Another remarkable feature of the Kolkata Session was that the resolutions on 'Swadeshi' and 'Boycott' were also adopted by the Congress.
- This dearly showed that dynamism was gaining ground in the Congress.
- Leaders having moderate political opinions, were not happy with these developments.
- They wanted to insert a clause in the Congress Constitution that Swaraj was to be achieved through constitutional means.
- Assertive nationalists, on the other hand, believed that unless they put strong pressure on the government, they would never achieve their objective.
- Swadeshi and Boycott were the basic components of their programme and methods of struggle.
- That is why the Congress got split in 1907 at Surat.
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