Question

why did gandhiji choose a simple thing like salt for the movement?salt still taxed today?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Salt was chosen to symbolize the start of civil disobedience movement because salt was deemed as something on which each Indian had the basic right. Mahatma Gandhi declared resistance to british salt policies to be the unifying theme for the civil disobedience movement and thus started dandi march

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Answer 2

Gandhiji chose salt as it was a common commodity and was used by almost everyone.

• Gandhiji chooses salt as a powerful symbol for the movement for civil disobedience, since salt has been used by all, whether the individual is poor or wealthy, Muslim or Hindu.
• He found it an opportunity to unite the Muslims and the Hindus as well as to boost the nation's dignity.
• Gandhi instructed the people in their homes to produce salt from sea water and breach the salt legislation.
• It was a mass movement. This was an act of social mobilization by deciding to fight the tax that affected the poorest of the poorest