Quit India Resolution was passed at the historic session of the All India Congress Committee which began on the 7th August 1942 and concluded after midnight of 8th/9th August 1942 at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Mumbai. In commemoration of the historic event, a 'National Day of Action' is observed nationwide on 8 & 9 August.

The commemoration of the Quit India movement on Tuesday provided a new flash point to Telangana protagonists. Telangana Congress leaders, while staging a sit-in near the Bapu Samadhi, warned the high command that party workers would quit the Congress if the latter continued to dither on the separate issue. Other groups championing the separate state cause like Telangana Jagruti gave a 'Quit Telangana' call to Seemandhra leaders who are opposing the T demand. Telangana Jagruti, a youth organization headed by K Kavitha, daughter of TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, said that the movement was being launched with the spirit of the Quit India movement.

Releasing the poster of the Quit Telangana movement at the Telangana martyrs' memorial, Kavitha said that all those opposing the Telangana movement have no place in the region. Andhraites and their properties will not be attacked. We will follow the Gandhian dictum. Quit Telangana is a non-violent movement. Leaders like K Sambasiva Rao are spoiling the Telangana movement. His questioning of the honesty of Yadireddy, who recently committed suicide in New Delhi, is the height of Andhra arrogance and cultural domination. The Quit Telangana programme will be launched in Hyderabad first till August 15 and later taken up across the region. "As part of the movement, Telangana Jagruti workers would stage dharnas in front of the residences of Andhra leaders who were actively involved in the denigration of the Telangana movement and the people", Kavitha said.