Speech on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Work for the Unity (PIS Vadodara celebrates Rastriya Ekta    Diwas)

                       Inspired  by the work and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, he joined   India's  struggle for independence. He organised peasants of Kheda,   Bardoli and  other parts of Gujarat and launched non-violent Civil   Disobedience  Movement in Gujarat, against the payment of raised tax,   levied by the  British government. He succeeded in his goal and the   British Government  suspended the payment of revenue for that year.  With  this he became one  of the most influential leaders in Gujarat. In  1920  he became the  president of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee  and  served in the post  till 1945. He was a strong supporter of the  Non  -Cooperation Movement of  Gandhi and worked against alcoholism,   Untouchability and caste  discrimination in Gujarat. He was elected as   the municipal president of  Ahmedabad in 1922, 1924 and 1927. When   Mahatma Gandhi was in prison, he  led the Satyagraha in Nagpur in 1923   against the British law, banning  the raising of the Indian flag. He  was  elected as the President of India  National Congress in 1931. He  was at  the forefront of the Congress' all  India election campaign in  1934 and  1937 and was a prominent leader in  organizing the Quit India  Movement  in 1942. He was arrested prior to the  Quit India Movement and  was  released in 1945.