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There is no reality in the fond expectation that Britain will leave the country in simple response to a Congress slogan. Besides, by asking the British to leave, the Congress was issuing an open invitation to a colonising power more brutal by far, the Japanese.

— C. Rajagopalachari Rajagopalachari (1942)

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Rajaji opposing Gandhi on the Quit India movement in 1942.

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