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Detailed explanation-1: -About: On 8 August 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the ‘Quit India’ movement. The next day, Gandhi, Nehru and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Kranti Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.

Detailed explanation-3: -The resolution of the Quit India movement was passed on 8 August 1942 at the Mumbai session of the AICC. The Bharat Chhodo Andolan, popularly known as the Quit India movement, had begun on 8 August 1942.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Let us pledge to free India from poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, casteism, communalism & create a ‘New India’ of our dreams by 2022, ” he said. Giving the slogan of ‘Sankalp Se Siddhi’, he urged people to work shoulder to shoulder “to create the India that our freedom fighters would be proud of".