Q. Quit India Movement was launched in response to

  • Cabinet Mission Plan
  • Cripps Proposals
  • Simon Commission Report
  • Wavell Plan

Answer: (b) Cripps Proposals

Notes:
  • Cripps Mission (1942):
    • The falling of Singapore and Rangoon in the Second World War compelled Winston Churchill and the British war cabinet to send a high-powered mission to India under the supervision of Stafford Cripps.
    • Churchill was against his own stance while signing the Atlantic Charter, 1941, proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then-American President. The aim of the Mission was to win the cooperation of India with Britain vis-a-vis the War. The Mission was formulated on 30 March 1942 with the offer of ‘Dominion Status’ for India.
    • The Mission was a complete failure, which angered the Indian nationalists, leading to the establishment of the Quit India Movement.
  • Quit India Movement 1942:
    • The Quit India Movement 1942 was a mass Civil Disobedience Movement launched by Gandhi on August 8, 1942, at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee.
    • The movement aimed to secure India’s independence from British rule.
    • The Congress Working Committee met in Wardha on 14th July 1942 and adopted the famous “Quit India Resolution”.
    • After the approval of the Congress Working Committee, Gandhi launched the movement in August 1942.
    • Addressing the Conference, Gandhi gave the call of “Do or Die”, either to get India free or to die in this attempt.