The Congress Working Committee, in its meeting in Wardha on 14 July 1942, passed the historic Quit India resolution demanding the immediate transfer of power to indians & quit India. On 8 August 1942 in Bombay, the All India Congress Committee called for a non-violent mass struggle on the widest possible scale throughout the mat Gandh delivered the famous Do or Die' speech: The call for Quit India a most to a standstill in large parts of the country as people voluntarily threw themselves into People observed hearts and demonstrations and processions were accompanied by The movement was truly a mass movement which brought into its ambit thousands of idents, workers and peasants. It also saw the active participation of leaders, namely onps Aruna Asal Al and Ram Manohar Lohia and many women such as Matangini Hazera in Bengal Kanta Berry in Assam and Rama Devi in Odisha. The British responded with much force, yet it took more than a ps the movement