C. Rajagopalachari led the Salt Satyagraha in which of the following states?

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SSC CGL 2020 Tier-I Official Paper 13 (Held On : 20 Aug 2021 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu.

Key Points

C Rajagopalachari led the Salt Satyagraha protest in Tamil Nadu.
Inspired by the Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi, a group of 100 men led by C Rajagopalachari marched to Vedaranyam and extracted salt from seawater in April 1930 to break the salt law imposed by the British.
He began his march from Tiruchi on April 13 and reached Vedaranyam on April 28.
The Salt Satyagraha was an act of civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi to protest British rule in India.

Additional Information

Salt March or Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha, was started by Mahatma Gandhi in the year 1930 in the March-April period.
It was the protest of the Indian people against Britain’s Salt Act of 1882 which prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in their diet.
Gandhi declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for his new campaign of “satyagraha,” or mass civil disobedience.
First, Gandhi sent a letter on March 2, 1930, to inform the Viceroy Lord Irwin that he and the others would begin breaking the Salt Laws in 10 days. Then, on March 12, 1930, Gandhi set out from his ashram, or religious retreat, at Sabarmati near Ahmedabad with several dozen followers on a trek of some 240 miles to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea.
In April, Gandhiji was joined with the tens of thousands of followers for their salt satyagraha.