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Who said, "At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom"?

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Lord Mountbatten
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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C. Rajagopalachari
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The correct option is C Jawaharlal Nehru
"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament, on the eve of India's Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947. In his speech he mentioned, "at the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom".

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