Question

Why Gandhiji considered salt as powerful symbol that could unite the nation?
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Answer 1

Mahatma Gandhi found in salt a powerful symbol that could unite the nation. The idea was to make the demands wide-ranging, so that all classes within Indian society could identify with them and everyone could be brought together in a united campaign. The most stirring of all was the demand to abolish the salt tax.Mar Because salt is only think which used at every home Rich or poor.

Answer 2

Answer:

Mahatma Gandhi found ‘Salt’ a powerful symbol: Gandhiji sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin stating eleven demands on 31st January, 1930. The most stirring of all was to abolish the salt tax. Salt was one of the most essential items of foods. It was consumed both by rich and poor alike. He urged them to peacefully defy the tax imposed on salt. On 6th April he reached Dandi and violated the law.

(i) Salt was something consumed by the rich and the poor alike and was one of the most essential food items.

(ii) The tax on salt and the government monopoly over its production revealed the most oppressive face of the British.

(iii) Mahatma thought that an ordinary thing like salt could give the movement a grand success which would ultimately dethrone the foreign rule.