Consider the following statements: 1. Matangini Hazra, is the only woman, who took part in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny. 2. Kanaklata Barua was a young freedom fighter from Assam who died during Quit India Movement. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The correct answer is option 2 . In News Indian Express : President Murmu pays tribute to Matangini Hazra, Kanaklata Barua: Who were these freedom fighters. Key Points Matangini Hazara : She was born in a village named Hogla, near Tamluk, in 1869. In his book ‘Code Name God’, Indian-American scientist and author Mani Bhaumik writes: “Matangani’s love for Gandhi was so great that she became known in our village as Gandhiburi, the old Gandhian woman. At the age of 61, she was arrested for taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 and the Salt March led by Gandhi. She died at the age of 73 during the Quit Indian Movement . Hence statement 1 is incorrect. Kanaklata Barua : One of the youngest martyrs of the Quit India Movement, Kanaklata Barua has an iconic status in Assam. Barua, then 17, led the Mrityu Bahini, a procession of freedom fighters, to unfurl the Tricolour at Gohpur police station on September 20, 1942. She had joined the Mrityu Bahini just two days before the incident. Hence statement 2 is correct. Additional Information The Quit India Movement has rightly been described as the most massive antiimperialist struggle on the eve of Partition and Independence. 1942, the year that the movement was launched and the next five years witnessed unparalleled and tumultuous events in the political history of India Sharp increase in popular nationalism, large-scale deprivation and death due to widespread famine conditions particularly the Bengal Famine of 1943, heightened Japanese aggression in Burma and Malaya , hopes of a military deliverance through the onward march of the ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ of Subhas Chandra Bose , and widening of the communal divide leading to the vivisection of the political fabric of the country were some of these developments