aruna asaf ali hoisted congress flag at gowalia tank maidan in mumbai during quit india movement 1942.
aruna asaf ali hoisted congress flag at gowalia tank maidan in mumbai during quit india movement 1942.
who hoisted congress flag at gowalia tank maidan in mumbai during quit india 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
quit india movement









































the quit india movement, or the august movement, was a movement launched at the bombay session of the all-india congress committee by mahatma gandhi on 8 august 1942, during world war ii, demanding an end to british rule of india.









































the cripps mission had failed, and on 8 august 1942, gandhi made 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.
quit india movement