Question

During the Quit India Movement, a girl named Kanaklata Barua led a public procession and defying the police, tried to enter the police station but was shot dead. This incident took place at - 
1. Sonitpur
2. Midnapur
3. Korapur
4. Gohpur

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Gohpur

The correct answer is Gohpur

Kanaklata Barua:

• Kanaklata Barua also called Birbala and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist and AISF leader who was shot dead by the British police while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
• Barua was born in the Borangabari village of the undivided Darrang district of Assam as the daughter of Krishna Kanta and Karneshwari Barua.
• Barua joined the Mrityu Bahini ('Death Army'), a death squad comprising groups of youth from the Gohpur subdivision of Assam, which was formed by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, in line with Gandhi's 'Do or Die' call.
• She died on 20 September 1942 (aged 17) in Borangabari, Gohpur, Assam. 

• ​The Fast Patrol Vessel ICGS Kanak Lata Barua of the Indian Coast Guard in Kolkata, commissioned in 1997, is named after Barua.

• It is named after a teenage freedom fighter who was shot dead in Assam during the Quit India Movement.