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Correct Answer: Option (A) — Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A
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Standard Reference VerifiedAssertion (A) is true: Working-class and organized trade union participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement of the early 1930s was considerably weaker compared to the mass strikes during the Non-Cooperation movement.
Reason (R) is true and correctly explains Assertion (A): Left-wing and communist trade union leaders in the early 1930s (influenced by the Comintern's 'ultra-left' phase) criticized the Indian National Congress leadership as bourgeois and reactionary, thereby keeping organized labor aloof from Congress-led mass agitation.
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