Kolkata, Aug 8 (IANS) Congress general secretary K. Keshava Rao, along with party workers from West Bengal, will go to Tamluk in East Midnapore district Monday to pay their respects to the martyrs of the Quit India movement, a party leader said.
‘Keshav Rao (in charge of West Bengal elections) told me that he will be coming to Kolkata and will be going to Tamluk,’ senior congress leader Pradip Bhattacharjee told IANS Sunday.
West Bengal Congress chief Manas Bhunia had earlier announced ‘Tamluk Chalo’ (Go to Tamluk) Aug 9 to commemorate the historic Quit India Movement and pay respects to the martyrs.
Mahatma Gandhi Aug 9, 1942 launched the Quit India Movement and told Indians to follow a non-violent civil disobedience.
In pre-Independence Midnapore district’s Tamluk and Contai subdivisions, Indians established parallel governments, which continued to function from Dec 17, 1942, to Aug 8, 1944, until Mahatma Gandhi personally requested the leaders to disband them.
Freedom fighter Matangini Hazra, who led a procession of 6,000 supporters, mostly women volunteers, with the purpose of taking over the Tamluk police station was shot dead by police.
