Abbas Tyabji : Hero of Salt Satyagraha
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He led the Gujarat Political Council, which had taken up the Non co-operation movement prior to the Indian National Congress. He had sacrificed his luxurious life in 1919 and took part in the national movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. Even at the ripe old age of eighty years, he traveled all over Gujarat in a bullock cart for selling Khadi cloth and to promote use of Khadi. He led the Bardoli Satyagraha successfully in 1928 and took the leadership of the National Movement as a ‘Dictator’, when Mahatma Gandhi was arrested during the Dandi March. He was arrested several times for leading the national movement. But he did not care about his health and marched ahead with the freedom movement despite his old age and other difficulties.
Under the leadership of Tyabji in Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi had successfully implemented several experiments in the national movement. Several other movements like Non Co-operation Movement, movement for boycotting the foreign goods, Anti-Liquor Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement were initiated first in Gujarat successfully under the leadership of Abbas Tayabji, which was later extended to the whole of the country. He was aptly praised as the ‘Gujarat Diamond’ by Gandhiji. Justice Abbas Tyabji played a leading role in the Indian national movement with a strong determination to free Mother India from the yoke of British imperialism till he breathed his last on 9 May 1936.
(Source : The Immortals, an album of 155 Muslim Freedom Fighters with the brief of each MFF in English and Telugu, authored by Syed Naseer Ahamed, Mobile : 9440241727)