Nation observe 66th anniversary of Quit India Movement

Mumbai, Aug 9 (ANI): The nation celebrated the 66th anniversary of the Quit India Movement today. Various programmes were held in Mumbai to make the occasion. A procession was staged from the August Kranti Maidan from where Mahatma Gandhi had flagged off the historic Quit India Movement on August 9, 1942 Prabhakar Kunte, a freedom fighter, remembered the day nostalgically. "On this day, Jawaharlal Nehru had passed this resolution and Sardar Patel seconded it," said Kunte. Bhai Jagtap, a member of the Congress party, said, "The aim of organizing such functions is to remember those bygone days, the way the freedom fighters laid down their lives for the country, we rarely get such occasions." On August 8, 1942, a resolution was passed at the All India Congress Committee session, which sanctioned the start of a mass struggle on non-violent lines. Mahatma Gandhi, who preached non-violence all his life, had asked his countrymen during the Quit India Movement to 'do or die' in order to throw out the British. The Indian National Congress was in the forefront of India's freedom struggle. (ANI)