04/14/1930 AD imprisoned
He is arrested while on a train from Allahabad for Raipur. Earlier, after addressing a huge meeting and leading a vast procession, he had ceremoniously manufactured some contraband salt. He was charged with breach of the salt law, tried summarily behind prison walls, and sentenced to six months of imprisonment.
Nehru and most of the Congress leaders were ambivalent initially about Gandhi's plan to begin civil disobedience with a satyagraha aimed at the British salt tax. After the protest had gathered steam, they realised the power of salt as a symbol. Nehru remarked about the unprecedented popular response, "it seemed as though a spring had been suddenly released"
Subjects Who or What imprisoned?
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England Nation
Objects To Whom or What was imprisoned?
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Jawaharlal Nehru (Pandit Nehru) 1st Prime Minister...
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