Gowalia Tank

On August 7, 1942, the All India Congress Committee organized its session under the Presidentship of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, which continued past-midnight into the next day.

The venue was the Gowalia Tank Maidan, which was located 250 metres away from Goculdas Tejpal House, the place where the Indian National Congress was established in December 1885.

[5] The call mobilised the citizens to a huge Civil Disobedience movement as the British refused to grant independence till the Second World War (1939 to 1945) was over.

The last park area houses the Smarak or martyr monument which is a white marble tower that cradles a pink lotus atop it.

The August Kranti Rajdhani Express, connecting Mumbai to New Delhi, was named after this maidan.