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Who is known as Frontier Gandhi?
a.Subhash chandra Bose
b.Abdul Ghafar Khan
c.Jawaharlal Nehru
d.MA Jinnah

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Hint: This famous personality has multiple nick-names which include: Badshah khan, Bacha khan and Fakhr-e-Afghan.

Complete Solution:A lot of freedom strugglers have been given different names according to their contributions in building the country we live in. For instance, Mahatma Gandhi is lovingly called the father of the nation.
Taking help from the hint, we can very easily understand, especially with the reference of the Khan analogy, that the answer is option b, Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan. He was a huge admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, preached and followed Non Violence and used Gandhian tactics against the colonisers. He was given a second nickname: "Frontier Gandhi," meaning the Gandhi from the Northwest border, the region adjacent to Afghanistan.
He was named ‘Sarhadi (Frontier) Gandhi’ by his very close associate Amir Chand Bombwal. Khan was a dear friend of Mahatma Gandhi and was in strong reluctance of the partition of India, but was betrayed by the Indian National congress when the partition was agreed upon by the congress without even considering the consent of his association ‘ Khudai Khidmatdars’.
Of the other options given to us, Jawaharlal Nehru is often lovingly called as ‘Chacha Nehru’ for he had immense affection for kids.
Hence, option b is the correct answer.

Note: You might be given the term ‘Sarhadi’ at times instead of ‘Frontier’, but do remember that both these are use for Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and always relate the title mentioned in the question with options and the major contributions by them for the country or for their respective field, this way even if you don't know the exact answer, you will not make a mistake.