New Delhi, Aug 9 (UNI) Remembering the freedom fighters on the 78th Quit India Movement, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that this movement had challenged the British rule in every nook and cranny of the country.
Taking to twitter, he said, “The famous ‘Quit India Movement’, popularly known as the ‘August Revolution’, had challenged the British Government right from small villages to big cities of the country. Today, on its 78th anniversary, I remember all the freedom brave fighters of this revolution and salute them”.
Mr Shah also said that 78 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi started this movement by giving a slogan ‘Do or Die’ for India’s independence.
“The aim of this movement was to end the British empire in India. The resolution for Independence and determined struggled of the freedom fighters had brought Britishers to their knees”, the Home Minister said in another tweet.
The Quit India Movement was launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India.
The Crips Mission had failed and on August 8, 1942, and Mahatma Gandhi gave a call to ‘Do or Die’ in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.
The All-India Congress Committee launched a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called ‘An Orderly British Withdrawal’ from India. The day is observed as August Kranti Day every year.

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