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Quit India Movement: PM Modi Remembers The Father Of The Nation
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Quit India Movement: PM Modi Remembers The Father Of The Nation

On the 76th Quit India Movement anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to remember Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation. Mr. Modi also shared a video commemorating all the men and women who stood by Mahatma Gandhi during this freedom struggle.

Remembering the great women and men who took part in the Quit India Movement. pic.twitter.com/S0PcuR5iLj

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 9 August 2018

PM Modi tweeted a picture of an official Quit India Movement report with the caption, "Mahatma Gandhi's clarion call galvanized the nation. Here is another official report indicating the spread of the Quit India movement and the wide scale participation."

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Mahatma Gandhi’s clarion call galvanised the nation.
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The Prime Minister also shared a beautiful poem on the movement by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The poem was published in the year 1946 in Abhyudaya a newspaper associated with Madan Mohan Malaviya.

Modi said, "Thanks to the National Archives, I found some fascinating nuggets of history relating to the Quit India Movement. Here is a poem on Quit India by Atal Ji. This was published in 1946 in 'Abhyudaya' a newspaper associated with Shri Madan Mohan Malaviya Ji."

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Thanks to the National Archives, I found some fascinating nuggets of history relating to the Quit India Movement.
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“It does not read well.”
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