Quit India Movement Day

The Quit India Movement Day was celebrated on 8 August, by paying tribute to freedom fighters who laid their lives for the country.

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The Quit India Movement Day was celebrated on 8 August, by paying tribute to freedom fighters who laid their lives for the country.

About theQuit India Movement Day

• The Quit India Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942, at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
• Different names: Bharat Chhodo, August Kranti or August Movement.
• The movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi and gave a call 'do or die'.
• In the early hours of the morning of 9 August 1942, most of the leaders of the congress including Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Kalam Azad, Gandhi, SardarVallabhbhai Patel, andJawaharlal Nehru were arrested and were lodged in different parts of the country.
• The congress was banned and there were hartals and processions in every part of the country.
• Lord Linlithgow, the then Viceroy of India, adopted the policy of violence to stop the movement.
• There were firings, lathi charges, and arrests throughout the country.
• The resolution for the movement declared for the immediate ending of British rule in India.
• Parallel governments were running in some parts of the country such as Balia in the U.P., Tamluk in Bengal, Satara in Maharashtra, Dharwar in Karnataka, and Balasore and Talcher in Orissa.

What were the causes behind the movement?

• The collapse of Cripps Mission to discuss the British Government’s Draft Declaration on the Constitution of India.
• Unconditional support in World War II by British India.
• Economic downturn due to World War II.
• The anti-British and full-independence sentiments
• Several mass movements All India KisanSabha and Forward Bloc set the radical tone for the movement to take place.