Infer the outcome of the huge demonstration of the peasants in Motihari. Class 12 indigo
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Gandhi starts narrating the incident which made him decide to urge the departure of the British from
India. This incident occurred in 1917.
Gandhi had gone to the December 1916 Annual Convention of the Indian National Congress Party in
Lucknow. A poor, emaciated and illiterate peasant named Rajkumar Shukla came to him and requested
to come to his district, Champaran. The peasants of Champaran were sharecroppers and Rajkumar
Shukla was one of them. He was a resolute man who had come to the Congress Session to complain
about the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar.
At that time Gandhi had an appointment and had to visit some other parts of India. Rajkumar Shukla
patiently accompanied him everywhere. Impressed by his determination Gandhi agreed to accompany
him to Champaran after his Calcutta visit. When Gandhi went to Calcutta after some months, he found
Shukla already present there.