aruna asaf ali hoisted the congress flag at the gowalia tank maidan in mumbai during the quit movement 1942.
who hoisted the congress flag at the gowalia tank maidan in mumbai during the quit movement 1942?
aruna asaf ali
on 8 august 1942, the all india congress committee passed the quit india resolution at the bombay session. the government responded by arresting the major leaders and all members of the congress working committee and thus tried to pre-empt the movement from success. young aruna asaf ali presided over the remainder of the session on 9 august and hoisted the congress flag at the gowalia tank maidan. this marked the commencement of the movement. the police fired upon the assembly at the session. aruna was dubbed the "heroine of the 1942 movement" for her bravery in the face of danger and was called "grand old lady of the independence movement" in her later years. despite the absence of direct leadership, spontaneous protests and demonstrations were held all over the country, as an expression of the desire of india’s youth to achieve independence.
aruna asaf ali
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gowalia tank maidan (officially renamed august kranti maidan) is a park in central mumbai where mahatma gandhi issued the quit india speech on 8 august 1942 decreeing that the british must leave india immediately or else mass agitations would take place. gandhi's call for the nation was of "do or die". the call mobilised the citizens to a huge civil disobedience movement as the british refused to grant independence till the world war ii (1939 to 1945) was over.









































the closest suburban railway station on the western railway line is grant road.
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