This journey will be a 75km journey from Sabarmati to Nadiad," the minister was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. Share Via. By hindustantimes. Read more: Guest Column: At 75, a renewed resolve to build New India together Before beginning the foot march, Gandhi addressed a letter to the viceroy expressing his intention to launch a civil disobedience movement in the country by symbolically breaking the salt tax law imposed by the Britishers, calling the law as "the most iniquitous of all from the poor man's standpoint.
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In January , Gandhi was released from prison. In August of that year, Gandhi traveled to the conference as the sole representative of the nationalist Indian National Congress. The meeting was a disappointment, but British leaders had acknowledged Gandhi as a force they could not suppress or ignore.
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