presided over the All India Khilafat Conference held at Delhi in November . Gandhi supported Shaukat Ali’s proposal of three national slogans, Allaho Akbar, Bande Mataram and Hindu-Musslamanki Jai. The Khilafat Committee meeting at Allahabad, on June , adopted Gandhi’s non-violent, non- cooperation programme. Non-Cooperation began on August .
Nationalism: Gandhian Phase The mob burnt the police station policemen lost their lives. Gandhi immediately withdrew the movement. (b) Swarajists Meanwhile Congress was divided into two groups, viz., pro-changers and no-changers. Some of the Congressmen led by Motilal Nehru and C.R.
Das wanted to contest the elections and enter the legislature. They argued that the national interest could be promoted by working in the Legislative Councils under Dyarchy and wrecking the colonial government within. They were called the pro-changers. Staunch followers of Gandhi like Vallabhbhai Patel, C.
Rajaji and others, known as no-changers, wanted to continue non-cooperation with the government. Despite the opposition C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swaraj Party on January , which was later approved by a special session of the Congress. Swaraj Party members were elected in large numbers to the Imperial Legislative Assembly and the various Provincial Legislative Councils.
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