Official Question UPSC 2025
Sedition has become my religion' was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of
Solution & Analysis
Answer: B
According to the 'Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi' and his March 1930 publications in the Young India journal, this fierce ideological statement was tied to the launch of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
•The Context: While preparing to break the colonial salt tax through the Dandi March, Gandhi recognized that the British state would brand the mass defiance as seditious treason.
•The Declaration: He explicitly wrote and spoke that when a ruling government becomes deeply exploitative, destructive, and unjust, loyalty to it is a sin. Consequently, non-violent defiance (legally termed 'sedition') transcends mere political strategy and becomes a sacred, moral duty—his 'religion'.
•Historical Distinction: Though he was tried for sedition earlier in 1922 after Chauri Chaura, the specific rallying cry of sedition being his religion was used to morally arm the masses prior to publicly violating the Salt Law at Dandi in 1930.