Quit India Movement Day is celebrated on 8 August each year in India. Quit India Movement was a mass civil disobedience movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942.
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He launched the movement in Gowalia Tank Maidan (now also known as August Kranti Maidan), and gave a call ‘do or die’.
While launching the movement, he demanded that the British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place.
One of the major triggers of Quit India Movement was British dragging India, without consent, into World War II to fight on behalf of Britain.
Over 87,000 Indian soldiers (including those from modern day Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh) died in World War II.
