Why did gandhiji choose salt tax to launch the civil disobedience movement ?
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Mahatma Gandhi chooses salt to launch the Civil Disobedience movement in India because salt was a common commodity in which the British had put a tax on it. ... He stared the movement from Sabarmati Aashram to Dandi in Gujrat, where he picked salt by breaking the rules of Britishers.
Why did gandhiji choose salt tax to launch the civil disobedience movement ?
Salt is consumed by both the poor and the rich, and is one of the most essential items of food everywhere in the world. The British government had the monopoly on the production of salt in India. By imposing a ‘salt tax’ the government hit both the rich and the poor, specially the poor. Gandhiji thought it was the most repressive Act of the British government and chose to defy it by breaking the “Salt Law”.
Eighty eight years ago, the day of March 12 gave the Indian freedom struggle a new direction. The non-violent movement of Mahatma Gandhi came to the offensive this day when the Father of the Nation took off for Dandi March from his Ashram at Sabarmati in Ahmedabad.
Covering the distance of 386 km from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on foot, the 62-year-old 'Bapu' was first joined by hundreds and then thousands on his way. It was the start of the civil disobedience movement which commenced as Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt law on the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea on April 5. Dandi March is also known as Namak Satyagrah or Salt Satyagrah.
