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Civil disobedience movement started under the leadership of Gandhi ji
Civil disobedience movement started under the leadership of Gandhiji the famous Dandi March of Gandhiji in 1930
In 1930, the Civil Disobedience Movement started under the leadership of Gandhi, following the independence day, which started with the famous Dandi March of Gandhiji.
On March 12, 1930, 78 other members of Gandhiji and ashram from Sabarmati Ashram, 385 km from Dandi, Ahmedabad Started a pedestrian walk to a village located on the western coast of India, far away. He reached Dandi on March 6, 1930, where he broke the salt law. It was illegal to make salt by someone at that time because the government had a monopoly on it.
Gandhiji disobeyed the government by taking the salt made from the evaporation of seawater. With the disobedience of the salt law, civil disobedience movement spread throughout the country.
The incidents of making salt in the first phase of this movement took place throughout the country and making salt was the symbol of government defiance by the people. In Tamil Nadu, C. Rajagopalachari organized a March as Dandi March from Tiruchirappalli to Vedarnayam.
Siddha poetess Sarojini Naidu, who was a key Congress leader and also the president of the Congress, led the March of non-violent Satyagraha on the salt factory located in Dharasana (Gujarat).
More than 300 people were injured in the lathi charge charged by the government and two people died. Sticks, strikes and exotic items were boycotted and later refused to pay. Millions of people including a large number of women took part in this movement.