Previous Year Question

“Sedition has become my religion” was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of

the Champaran Satyagraha

publicly violating Salt Law at Dandi

attending the Second Round Table Conference in London

the launch of the Quit India Movement

Correct Answer: B

Detailed Solution

Gandhiji began the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930. On 6 April 1930, after reaching Dandi, he publicly violated the British Salt Law by manufacturing salt from seawater. The famous statement is associated with this occasion—

“Sedition has become my religion.”

Here, ‘sedition’ did not mean a violent rebellion. Gandhiji regarded the non-violent civil disobedience of unjust colonial laws as his moral duty. The violation of the Salt Law became the symbolic beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Clarity about the other options:

(a) Champaran Satyagraha: It was launched in 1917 and concerned indigo cultivation and the tinkathia system.

(c) Second Round Table Conference: Gandhiji attended it in London in 1931 as the sole representative of the Congress. It was a stage of negotiation.

(d) Quit India Movement: It began in August 1942 and is associated with Gandhiji’s “Do or Die” call.

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