Correct answer: (d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Explanation
- A
M.K. Gandhi
(a) M.K. Gandhi. Gandhi was the Congress delegate at the Second Round Table Conference (London, 1931) after the Gandhi–Irwin Pact. He did participate.
- B
Sarojini Naidu
(b) Sarojini Naidu. Naidu attended the Second RTC with Gandhi. She is not the absentee.
- C
Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya
(c) Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya. Malaviya was in the Second RTC Indian group. He participated.
- D
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Rajendra Prasad did not go to the Second Round Table Conference. Official key.
Summary. Official key is (d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. The Second RTC (September–December 1931) had Gandhi as sole Congress spokesman, with Sarojini Naidu, Madan Mohan Malaviya and others in the wider Indian delegation. Prasad stayed in the domestic Congress organisation and is the named non-participant. Do not confuse him with the First RTC boycott, which Congress as a body had skipped in 1930.
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