Question

Who gave the slogan of ‘Do or Die’?
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Bhagat Singh
4. Subhash Chandra Bose

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Mahatma Gandhi

The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi.

• The slogan 'do or die' is associated with Mahatma Gandhi.
• This slogan came into existence during the Quit India Movement initiated by Gandhiji.
• The slogan was officially launched by the Indian National Congress (INC) led by Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942.
• The movement gave the slogans 'Quit India' or 'Bharat Chodo'.

 

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on 23rd July 1856 in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
  • Freedom fighter and lawyer, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, is also known as Lokmanya Tilak.
  • Slogan: “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!”
• Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary whose two acts of dramatic violence against the British in India and execution at age 23 made him a folk hero of the Indian independence movement.
  • Bhagat Singh coined the powerful slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' which became the slogan of India's armed struggle.
• ​Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempts during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy.
  • “Give me blood and I will give you freedom!” One of Bose's most quoted lines is from a speech that Bose delivered to the soldiers of the Indian National Army that he commanded along with Mohan Singh.