The Congress Working Committee adopted the 'Quit India' resolution in July 1942 (later ratified by the AICC in Bombay on 8 August 1942) at its meeting held at:

The Congress Working Committee adopted the "Quit India" resolution at its meeting held at Wardha (Maharashtra) on 14 July 1942.

Background:

• The failure of the Cripps Mission (April 1942) convinced Gandhi and the Congress that the British would not give real power to Indians.
• Japan's advance in South-East Asia and Burma brought the threat of war close to India.
• Gandhi felt that the presence of the British in India was an invitation to Japan to invade India, and that the British should withdraw.
• In his articles in "Harijan", Gandhi called for "orderly British withdrawal" from India.

The Wardha resolution:

• The Working Committee, meeting at Wardha, accepted Gandhi's idea and passed a resolution demanding that British rule in India must end immediately.
• It said that if this demand was not accepted, the Congress would launch a mass struggle on non-violent lines under Gandhi's leadership.
• This is often called the "Quit India resolution" of the Working Committee.

The All India Congress Committee:

• The resolution was ratified by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) at its meeting in Bombay on 8 August 1942, at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.
• Gandhi gave his famous "Do or Die" speech there.

The arrests:

• In the early hours of 9 August 1942, Gandhi and all the top leaders of the Congress were arrested.
• The movement then spread spontaneously across the country.

About Wardha:

• Wardha was the place where Gandhi lived and worked in the 1930s and 1940s, at the Sevagram Ashram nearby.
• Many important meetings of the Congress Working Committee were held at Wardha.
• The Wardha Scheme of Basic Education (1937) was also prepared here.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Allahabad, Delhi and Calcutta were not the venue of this meeting.