The Swaraj Party was a political party formed in India in January 1923. It sought greater self-government and political freedom for the Indian people. The two most important leaders were Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru. The party disintegrated after the death of C. R. Das in 1925.
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The Swaraj Party was a political party formed in India in January 1923. It sought greater self-government and political freedom for the Indian people. The two most important leaders were Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru. The party disintegrated after the death of C. R. Das in 1925, and with Motil al Nehru’s return to the Congress the following year. After his release from prison in 1924, Gandhi sought to bring the back the party. But Gandhi’s supporters were in a vast majority in the Congress, and the party remained India’s largest political party. This was opposed by Gandhi’s men like Vallabhai Patel and Prasad Raja, who became known as the ‘No-Changers’ The party was formed by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Mahatma’s suspension of all civil resistance on 12 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors.
But many Indians felt that the Non-Cooperation Movement should not have been suspended over an isolated incident of violence, and that its astonishing success was actually close to breaking the back of British rule in India. These people became disillusioned with Gandhi’s political judgments and instincts, and split into two groups. On the advice of Gandhi, the two groups decided to remain in the congress but to work in their separate ways. There was no basic difference between the two.
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