Explanation

Option A is correct: On 8th August 1942, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting at the historic Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay formally adopted the Quit India Resolution, where Mahatma Gandhi issued the clarion call of ’Do or Die’.

– Option B is incorrect: Expansion of the Viceroy’s Executive Council occurred earlier under the August Offer of 1940 and the Government of India Act framework.
– Option C is incorrect: Congress provincial ministries resigned in October-November 1939 to protest the British government dragging India into World War II without consulting Indian leaders.
– Option D is incorrect: Sir Stafford Cripps presented his constitutional proposals in March-April 1942, not August.

Therefore, the correct statement is Option A.