Remembering the Quit India Movement : CITU Women’s March in Karwar

Karwar : The women force of Karwar conducted a March to commemorate ‘Quit India Movement’ to press various demands of working women in the contemporary India, here on Wednesday.
The March was organised under the banner of CITU, KPRS, Janavadi Women’s Organizations.
The Quit India Movement, also known as the Bharat Chhodo Andolan, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 9th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.
After the British failed to secure Indian support for the British war effort with Cripps Mission, Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his Quit India movement delivered in Bombay on 9th August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.
In Karwar and in all the taluks of the district, street meetings have been conducted at different places, and leaflets have been distributed.
In Karwar, District Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPIM Yamuna Gaonkar, District Secretary of Karnataka Circle Farmers’ Association Shyamanath Naik, Mohini Namsekar of Janavadi Women’s Organisation, Tara Naik of CITU, Maya, Manjula, Jayashree Gowda have led the March.