Why was Gandhi visiting Lucknow in 1916?
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Gandhi had gone to Lucknow in December 1916 to attend the annual convention of the Indian National Congress party. There he met a peasant who came up to him looking like any other emaciated and penurious Indian peasant and introduced himself as Rajkumar Shukla from Champaran. Shukla wanted Gandhi to come to his district, a place Gandhi had never heard of but was situated in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, near the kingdom of Nepal. This was the meeting that Gandhi recalled as the decisive factor which changed the course of the political history of India and urged Gandhi to seek the departure of the British from India.
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Mahatma Gandhi had visited Lucknow in 1916 to attend the 31st Congress session he was not a nationally popular leader.
It was during this tour that Gandhi first came in contact with Raj Kumar Shukla, a farmer from Champaran, Bihar, who coerced him and practically followed him everywhere till Gandhi gave his consent to visit Champaran along with him to witness British atrocities on Indigo planters.