Congress organises programme to observe Quit India Day in Jammu

Jammu, August 09: In connection with the Quit India Day anniversary today  an impressive  function was held here today at PCC HQ Shahid Chowk Jammu in which leaders of PCC, DCC and frontal organizations besides a large number of prominent workers participated and remembered sacrifices and contributions of late leaders  led by Mahatma Gandhi.

The function was presided over by Shri Narinder Gupta, General Secretary Org), While General Secretaries Adv. Suresh Dogra & Thomas Khokhar, Congress Seva Dal Chief Vijay Sharma, NSUI President Ajay Lakhotra, Kapil Singh,  Secretaries Kuldeep Raj Verma,  Dwarika Choudhary, Rajveer Singh, Michael Wazir, Harvinder Singh Mehta, Manjit Singh Jatt, Vijay Shastri, Th.Hoshyar Singh,  Rajinder Singh Jamwal, Bhavishya Sudan, Varinder Manhas, Iqbal Bhat,  Ricky Dalotra, Rakesh Sharma, Manjit Singh Bedi,Farooq Salaria, Latish Sharma, Ajay Kumar, Camresh David Babloo, Prem Singh,  Sikander Khan, Zahur Tantrey, Jai Paul, Smt. Sandhya Sharma, Sunita Sharma and others addressed the gathering.         .

The speakers recalled the freedom struggle of the Country launched by Congress party (INC) led by father of nation Mahatma Gandhi, served a final ultimatum to the Britishers to quit India, which finally forced the Britishers, through non-violent and peaceful means to leave this country and finally country attained freedom in 1947.

They said the Quit India Movement has great importance in the history of freedom struggle of our Country and the role of Quit India Movement of 1942 launched by INC led by Mahatma Gandhi in achieving the goal of freedom. The AICC session at Bombay on 08^th August, 1942 decided to launch the Quit India Movement. The entire national leadership of Congress including Mahatma Gandhi were taken into custody same night.  The next day Smt. Aruna Asif Ali a young leader hoisted the flag breaking all barriers and movement was launched through the length and breadth of the country. While Mahatma Gandhi Ji was in jail, his wife Smt. Kasturba Gandhi expired. The entire leadership was in jail but it was  Smt. Indira Gandhi returned from Srinagar airport and led the entire movement. This movement forced Britishers to decide to leave this country.

The speakers also criticized those forces and organizations who did not participate in the Quit India Movement and sided with Britishers but today questioning Congress, which is very unfortunate and irony of the time.