NDA2017General AbilityGeneral StudiesActual
Which one of the following statements about the quit India Movement is not correct?
Options
- AIt broke out in August 1942.
- BAhmedabad Textile Mills went on strike for more than three months.
- CMuslim League and Hindu Mahasabha actively participated in the movement.
- DCommunist Party did not support the movement.
Correct answer
C. Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha actively participated in the movement.
Step-by-step solution
By early 1944, India was mostly peaceful again, while the entire Congress leadership was incarcerated. A sense that the movement had failed depressed many nationalists, while Jinnah and the Muslim League, as well as Congress opponents like the Communists and Hindu extremists, sought to gain political mileage, criticizing Gandhi and the Congress Party.