DANDI MARCH: “ONE MORE PILLAR OF FREEDOM FIGHT OF INDIA”

The day marks the beginning of the Dandi March, also referred to as the Salt March or the Salt Satyagraha, an element of the protest of late Mr. Gandhi, the father of nation against nation monopoly over the assembly of salt. Led by mahatma Gadhi, 78 people together has begined the turning event in form of “Namak Satyagraha” on March, 12, 1930. Before beginning the foot march, Gandhi wrote a letter to the then viceroy expressing his intention to launch a direct action movement in the country by symbolically breaking the salt jurisprudence imposed by the Britishers, calling the law as "the most inequal for all person from the point of view of a lay man or a poor man." On the eve of the March, Gandhi said in a speech, stating that perhaps these are the last words of my life here.” The march closed or finished in april, 1930, when bapu defied the salt law by eating a pinch of salt. After this, several people broke the salt law as salt depots were raided everywhere and therefore the manufacture of salt was undertaken. "Now this is the official or say technical breach of so called Namak Satyagrah or Salt Satyagraph committed, it's now receptive anyone who would take the danger of imprisonment under the such Salt Law to produce salt, wherever he wishes and wherever it's convenient,” nationalist leader said in an exceedingly statement released when multiple violations of salt law observed. In response, country government arrested over 95,000 number of person’s up to 31st March. But the salt satyagraha spread nationwide, becoming the primary imply direct action and thus, one in all the foremost important chapters of India’s Independence struggle.

 

KEYWORDS: Gandhi Ji, Disobedience, Independence, Salt March, Prison, Azadi Mahotsav.


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