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Correct Answer: 👉 (B) My father once told me that if he couldn’t trust his people then he didn’t want to be doing that.

Explanation (step-by-step):

Original (Direct Speech):

My father once said to me, “If I can’t trust my people, then I don’t want to be doing this.”

When we change direct speech → indirect speech, we apply these rules:

“said to” → “told”
Because a person is being addressed (me), we use told me.

Pronoun change:

• I → he (because the speaker is my father)
• my people → his people (belongs to father, not to “me”)
• me remains me (listener is still the narrator)

Tense change (backshift):

• can’t → couldn’t
• don’t want → didn’t want

Near word change:

• this → that (in reported speech, “this” usually becomes “that”)

So the correct indirect sentence becomes:
My father once told me that if he couldn’t trust his people then he didn’t want to be doing that.

Therefore, option (B) is correct.