Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, late at night on August 8, 1942, the All India Congress Committee passed the historic Quit India resolution. “Thereafter Mahatma Gandhi gave his iconic ‘Do or Die’ speech heralding the launch of the Quit India movement.””In the very early hours of Aug 9th, 1942, the top leadership of the Congress were jailed. Gandhiji himself was kept at the Aga Khan palace in Pune till May 6, 1944. Nehru, Patel, Azad, Pant, and others were taken to Ahmednagar Fort prison where they remained till March 28, 1945,” Ramesh said.He said for Nehru it was the ninth imprisonment and between 1921 and 1945, he spent a total of nine years in jail. It was in Ahmednagar jail that he wrote his immortal The Discovery of India, he noted.”While the entire Congress leadership languished in jail and while the entire nation was stirred, the RSS brotherhood actively opposed the Quit India movement. Seven years later it was to oppose the Constitution of India as well,” Ramesh alleged.
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