Prelims One liner Facts

The Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress, presided over by a Moderate, Ambika Charan Majumdar,

• readmitted the Extremists led by Tilak to the Congress

Factors facilitated this reunion:
(i) Old controversies had become meaningless now.
(ii) Both the Moderates and the Extremists realised that the split had led to political inactivity.
(iii) Annie Besant and Tilak had made vigorous efforts for the reunion. To allay Moderate suspicions. He also denounced acts of violence.
(iv) The death of two Moderates, Gokhale and Pherozshah Mehta, who had led the Moderate opposition to the Extremists, facilitated the reunion.