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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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Rajagopalachari

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Solution

The correct option is C

Jawaharlal Nehru


Jawaharlal Nehru

Tryst with Destiny was a speech delivered by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru 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’.

Hence, the correct option is (C)


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