Why did Gandhiji go for Non-Cooperation when he had successfully organized Satyagraha?
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While the Rowlatt Satyagrah had been a widespread movement, it was still limited mostly to cities and towns. Mahatma Gandhi now felt the need to launch a more borad based movement in India. But he was certain that no such movement could be organised without bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together. One way of doing this, he felt, was to take up the Khilafat issue. To defend the Khalifa's temporal powers, a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919. A young generation of Muslim leaders like the brothers Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, began discussing with Mahatma Gandhi about the possibility of a united mass action on the issue. Gandhiji saw this as an opportunity to bring Muslims under a umbrella of a unified National Movement.
At the Calcutta Session of Congress in September 1920, Mahatma Gandhi convinced other leaders of the need to start a Non-Cooperation Movement in support of Khilafat as well as for Swaraj. In December, 1920 the program of the Non-Cooperation Khilafat Movement was adopted. And finally in January, 1921 the Non-Cooperation Khilafat Movement was started.