Read the excerpt from Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech "A Tryst with Destiny.”

That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.

Which statement best describes Nehru’s reason for the claim that India must work hard to fulfill its pledges?

Representatives have to dedicate themselves to constant work and service.
Representatives have never fulfilled their pledges in the past.
The people of India owe their representatives their service and hard work.
The people of India have made pledges to the country that they should fulfill.