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Early Congress:1893 - 1918
Lala Lajpat Rai from Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak from Maharashtra and Bipin Chandra Pal from Bengal became the trio-heroes of the nation and were fondly called
Lal-Bal-Pal. The freedom movement of the nation was at times lacking mass participation. Tilak came up with a visionary idea: to celebrate Ganesh Festival and Shivaji Utsav to instill patriotism amongst people, which literally brought the fight from the Council halls to the streets. Rabindranath introduced the Shivaji Utsav in Bengal. Finally Tilak declared:
"Swaraj (independence) is my birth-right." By then, Congress had two distinct groups - moderates and the extremists.
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