Previous Year Question

C. Rajagopalachari organised and led the Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha to break the Salt Law on the Tanjore coast.

It was a major campaign of the Civil Disobedience Movement conducted in South India parallel to Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March.

Rajagopalachari and the Satyagrahis began their journey from Trichinopoly, present-day Tiruchirappalli, on 13 April 1930. They travelled approximately 150 miles, or about 240 kilometres, towards the coastal town of Vedaranyam in the then Tanjore district.

At dawn on 30 April 1930, Rajagopalachari and some Satyagrahis picked up salt near Agasthiyampalli, close to Vedaranyam, and violated the British Salt Law. Rajagopalachari was subsequently arrested.

V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, K. Kamaraj and Annie Besant were not the organisers of this Tanjore coast campaign.