Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Congress Socialist Party ?

Acharya Narendra Dev was a leading figure in the Congress Socialist Party (CSP). Historical accounts explicitly record the foundation of the CSP under the leadership of Acharya Narendra Dev and Jai Prakash Narayan, identifying Narendra Dev as a principal leader involved in creating and guiding the Socialist group within the Congress [1]. Other treatments of the socialist movement list Acharya Narendra Dev among the prominent leaders of the socialist parties that emerged from Congress, alongside figures such as Jayaprakash Narayan and Asoka Mehta, confirming his central role in the CSP and subsequent socialist organisations [2]. Contemporary overviews of the CSP’s origins also note Narendra Dev’s prominent chairmanship at its Patna founding and early organisational work [3].

Sources

1. [1] Modern India ,Bipin Chandra, History class XII (NCERT 1982 ed.)[Old NCERT] > Chapter 15: Struggle for Swaraj > Growth of Socialist Ideas > p. 293
2. [2] Politics in India since Independence, Textbook in political science for Class XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 2: Era of One-party Dominance > Communist victory in Kerala > p. 34
3. [3] https://magazines.odisha.gov.in/Orissareview/2015/Jan/engpdf/52-55.pdf