Q. Who played a crucial role in Quit India movement when all the major leaders were imprisoned?
Solution:
Aruna Asaf Ali was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942.
After Independence, she remained active in politics, becoming Delhi’s first mayor in 1958. In the 1960s, she successfully started a media publishing house. She received India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1997.
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