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Option 2 : Satara
The correct answer is Satara.
- The Satara Parallel Government in Maharashtra, which fought British control from August 1943 to May 1946, was a legendary chapter in India's historic freedom war.
- It, like the parallel administrations in Bengal's Midnapore, Bihar's Bhagalpur, Uttar Pradesh's Ballia, and Odisha's Basudevpur, was an armed outgrowth of the 1942 Quit India movement.
- 'Kratisimha' Nana Patil (1900-1976), the leader of the Satara Parallel administration, later joined the Communist Party and was elected to the Lok Sabha on the CPI platform from Satara in 1957 and Beed in 1967.
- The Prati Sarkar (Parallel Government) movement was a guerilla movement that operated in over 150 villages with widespread peasant backing.
- Satara is a city in Maharashtra, located near the confluence of the Krishna River and its tributary, the Venna.
- The city was founded in the 16th century and served as the capital of the Maratha Empire's Chhatrapati, Shahu I.
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