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Q.

Which of the following statements are correct about Quit India Movement?

1. The draft proposed massive civil disobedience if the British did not accede to the demands.

2. Rajaji quit the Indian National Congress to oppose the movement.

3. Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad were apprehensive and critical of the call, but backed it.

4. Jai Prakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia supported the movement.

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Explanation:
  • 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 Congress Working Committee meeting at Wardha (14 July 1942) passed a resolution demanding complete independence from the British government. The draft proposed massive civil disobedience if the British did not accede to the demands. However, it proved to be controversial within the party. A prominent Congress national leader, Chakravarti Rajgopalachari, quit the Congress over this decision, and so did some local and regional level organisers. Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad were apprehensive and critical of the call, but backed it and stuck with Gandhi's leadership until the end. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Rajendra Prasad and Anugrah Narayan Sinha openly and enthusiastically supported such a disobedience movement, as did many veteran Gandhians and socialists like Asoka Mehta and Jayaprakash Narayan.

Thus, Option D is Correct.

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