<Dd> attacked 550 post offices, 250 railway stations, damaged many rail lines, destroyed 70 police stations, and burned or damaged 85 other government buildings . There were about 2,500 instances of telegraph wires being cut . The greatest level of violence occurred in Bihar . The Government of India deployed 57 battalions of British troops to restore order . </Dd> <P> At the national level the lack of leadership meant the ability to galvanise rebellion was limited . The movement had a local impact in some areas . especially at Satara in Maharashtra, Talcher in Odisha, and Midnapore . In Tamluk and Contai subdivisions of Midnapore, the local populace were successful in establishing parallel governments, which continued to function, until Gandhi personally requested the leaders to disband in 1944 . A minor uprising took place in Ballia, now the easternmost district of Uttar Pradesh . People overthrew the district administration, broke open the jail, released the arrested Congress leaders and established their own independent rule . It took weeks before the British could reestablish their writ in the district . Of special importance in Saurashtra (in western Gujarat) was the role of the region's' baharvatiya' tradition (i.e. going outside the law) which abetted the sabotage activities of the movement there . In rural west Bengal, the Quit India Movement was fueled by peasants' resentment against the new war taxes and the forced rice exports . There was open resistance to the point of rebellion in 1942 until the great famine of 1943 suspended the movement . </P> <P> One of the important achievements of the movement was to keep the Congress party united through all the trials and tribulations that followed . The British, already alarmed by the advance of the Japanese army to the India - Burma border, responded by imprisoning Gandhi . All the members of the Party's Working Committee (national leadership) were imprisoned as well . Due to the arrest of major leaders, a young and till then relatively unknown Aruna Asaf Ali presided over the AICC session on 9 August and hoisted the flag; later the Congress party was banned . These actions only created sympathy for the cause among the population . Despite lack of direct leadership, large protests and demonstrations were held all over the country . Workers remained absent en masse and strikes were called . Not all demonstrations were peaceful, at some places bombs exploded, government buildings were set on fire, electricity was cut and transport and communication lines were severed . </P> <P> The British swiftly responded with mass detentions . Over 100,000 arrests were made, mass fines were levied and demonstrators were subjected to public flogging . Hundreds of civilians were killed in violence many shot by the police army . Many national leaders went underground and continued their struggle by broadcasting messages over clandestine radio stations, distributing pamphlets and establishing parallel governments . The British sense of crisis was strong enough that a battleship was specifically set aside to take Gandhi and the Congress leaders out of India, possibly to South Africa or Yemen but ultimately did not take that step out of fear of intensifying the revolt . </P>

Who hoisted congress flag at gowalia tank maidan in mumbai during quit india movement 1942