Usha Mehta and Congress Radio
Also called: Secret Congress Radio · Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Congress Radio was a secret radio station run from Bombay during the Quit India movement of 1942. Usha Mehta, a young student, ran it with a few others. The British had jailed the top leaders, so the station broadcast news of the struggle and messages from leaders who had gone underground. It ran for a few months before the police found it, and its operators were jailed.
Example
From c. August 1942 the station went on air with the words "This is the Congress Radio". It kept changing its location to avoid capture. The police finally raided it in c. November 1942, and Usha Mehta was sent to prison.
Related concepts
- Provincial elections of 1937
- Congress ministries 1937-39
- Wardha scheme of basic education
- Congress Socialist Party
- Haripura session 1938
- Tripuri crisis 1939
- Forward Bloc
- Second World War
- Lord Linlithgow
- Resignation of Congress ministries