Question

why did mahatma gandhi choose salt tax to launch civil disobedience movement

Answer 1

it is because the tax imposed on the taxes at that time was very high and was affortable by the porr. so, gandhiji started civil disobedience movement after the salt satyagraha

Answer 2

Because salt was considered as something on which every Indian had the basic claim.

Taxes on salt have been implemented in India since earliest times. But the tax on salt increased greatly at the time of British rule in India. The British government forced the Indian people to buy the vital mineral salt. The Britishers were exercising a monopoly over the production and marketing of salt and imposed heavy taxes on salt. Therefore, in response to the taxes introduced by the British government on salt M.K Gandhi launched a salt march from March to April 1930. During this march, thousands of Indians supported Gandhi from his spiritual retreat near Ahmadabad to the coast of the Arabian Sea. On April 6, 1930, he formally launched the Civil Disobedience Movement. Indian women participated in large number in this movement; they continued the production of salt and boycotted foreign clothes and goods. Peasants of India refused to pay revenue and Chowkidari taxes. Indian officials resigned from their jobs and in many areas, tribal people violated forest laws. However, the march concluded in the imprisonment of nearly 60,000 people.