Question

Explain the statement with reason.

Salt was used as symbol during Civil Disobedience movement.

Answer 1

1. The British government had levied a heavy tax on salt, an essential commodity in daily life.
2. Mahatma Gandhi declared satyagraha to protest against this tax.
3. On the day of 12^th March 1930, he began a march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on Gujarat seacoast, against this unjust tax.
4. On 6^th April on the seacoast at Dandi, he broke the British law of salt with a token act of collecting a handful of salt from there.

Therefore, Salt was used as a symbol during the Civil Disobedience Movement.