Civil disobedience movement
In 1930 Gandhiji launched Civil disobedience movement.
In 1929, INC adopted poorna swaraj (complete independence) as
its goal at the Lahore session of the congress under the president
ship of Nehru. It also decided for launching a civil disobedience
campaign.
At midnight on 31 December 1929, Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the
newly adopted Tricolor Flag of freedom on the bank of river Ravi.
26 January 1930 was fixed as the first independent day.
The Civil disobedience movement was started by Gandhiji with his
famous Dandi March.
He started his salt Satyagraha or the Dandi march on the morning
of 12 March 1930 with a band of 78 volunteers. It was 385 km
(240mile) Journey from Sabarmati ashram at Ahmedabad to Dandi
on the west coast. On April 5 at 6 in morning Gandhiji and his
volunteers picked up salt lying on the sea shore.
In Tamilnadu C. Rajagopalachari led a salt march from Tiruchirapalli
to vedranyakam on the Tanjore coast. He was arrested on 30 April
1930.
In Malabar, K. kellapan the hero of the Guruvayoor Satyagraha,
walked from Calicut to payyannur to break the salt law.
Gandhiji was arrested on May 5, 1930. After this arrest his place
was taken by Abbas Tyabji and after the arrest of Abbas leadership
passed on to Sarojini Naidu.
Lord Irwin the viceroy called decision of Gandhi as kinder garden
stage of revolution.
Irvin called Gandhi’s breaking of salt as storm in tea cup.
“Salt suddenly became a mysterious word, a word of power”
These words were spoken by Nehru on the occasion of salt
satyagraha.
Darshana salt works Satyagraha on 21st May 1930 was led by
Sarojini Naidu, Imam Sahib and Manilal Gandhi.