Key Facts About Quit India Movement
1. Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi launched Quit India Movement on 8th August 1942.
2. Congress Committee
All-India Congress Committee was held in Mumbai to end British rule. Gandhi named leader of the movement
3. Do or Die
Gandhiji gave the call “Do or Die” in his speech delivered at Mumbai.
4. Grand Old Lady
Aruna Asaf Ali, a leader that emerged from the movement was popularly known as the ‘Grand Old Lady’ of the Independence Movement.
5. Yusuf Meherally
Quit India Slogan coined by Socialist and Trade unionist Yusuf Meherally.
6. The Resolutions
the immediate end of the British Raj on India and other 3 resolutions taken by movement.
7. Three phase movement
The Quit Idea movement took place in three stages.
8. No Support
the Mulsim League, Hindu Mahasabha, the Communist Party of India, and the Indian Bureaucracy are not support movement.
9. Arrest
Nearly 1,00,000 people were arrested and Congress was declared an unlawful association.
10. Movement Crushed
The Quit India movement was crushed in 1944.
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