Tributes were paid to martyrs on Wednesday at the August Kranti Maidan here to mark the 81st anniversary of the Quit India movement. The movement is a major milestone in the history of India’s struggle for independence from the British rule.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde led the gathering at the Maidan in paying floral tributes to freedom fighters and others who laid down their lives in the freedom struggle.
People visited the August Kranti Maidan in the morning and offered floral tributes at the Gandhi Smruti Stambh. This is the ground from where Mahatma Gandhi gave the clarion call of do-or-die for independence.
The movement in August 1942, with Mahatma Gandhi’s call for immediate independence, was launched at Mumbai’s Gowalia Tank, which later came to be known as August Kranti Maidan due to its association with the historic occasion.