Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches 70 Saal Azaadi Yaad Karo Kurbani celebrations

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9 August 2016 launched 70 Saal Azaadi, Yaad Karo Kurbani celebrations in Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh. Alirajpur is the birthplace of freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad.

The Yaad Karo Kurbani is a 15-day programme. It is aimed at celebrating 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement and 70 years of Independence.

Key highlights of the campaign

• The 70 Saal Azaadi, Yaad karo Qurbani campaign is aimed at developing a feeling in every person that nation is first and individual is secondary.

• It seeks to provide an opportunity for the people to recall the supreme sacrifices made by freedom fighters during freedom struggle.

• The goal of the campaign is to inform the youngsters about the unsung heroes and the history of the freedom struggle.

About Quit India Movement

• The Quit India Movement is also known as the India August Movement (August Kranti).

• It was a civil disobedience movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee.

• It was launched by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II.

• The movement’s demand was an end to British Rule of India.

• Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his Quit India speech delivered in Mumbai at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.

• The All-India Congress Committee launched a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "An Orderly British Withdrawal" from India.

• Almost the entire leadership of the INC was imprisoned without trial within hours of Gandhi's speech.

• The Quit India campaign was effectively crushed.

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