Following the Quit India resolution passed by the Congress party in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) on 8 Aug 1942, the entire Congress working committee, including Gandhi and Nehru, was arrested and imprisoned.

Congress in the 1920s appealed to peasants by portraying Gandhi as a sort of messiah ( the long-awaited savior of an entire people ), a strategy that succeeded in incorporating radical forces within the peasantry into the nonviolent resistance movement.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

The " Bandra-Worli Sea Link " bridge named " Rajiv Gandhi Setu " was inaugurated by United Progressive Alliance Chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday ( 30-6-2009 ) and can be viewed in its totality from the " Worli Fort ", a configuration of ancient and modern architectural marvels. Hope Worli fort gets some tourist attention after construction of the " Bandra-worli Sealink " as it provides a grand spectacle from the forts summit of the entire Mumbai bay. Strangely, this fort was totally neglected and crumbling, although situated in prime Mumbai with a fishing village that is unique to bustling populated Mumbai.

Gandhi felt responsible for the killings, reproached himself for not emphasizing non-violence more firmly, and feared that the entire Non-Cooperation Movement would degenerate into an orgy of violence between the British-controlled army and police and mobs of freedom-fighters, alienating and hurting millions of common Indians.

While the entire nation was celebrating the Independence Day, Gandhi decided to stay in Calcutta in an attempt to stem the communal carnage.

The Nationalist school has focused on Congress, Gandhi, Nehru and high level politics.

He became Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Nehru first met Gandhi in 1916, at the Lucknow session of the Congress.

In the rift that formed within the Congress following the sudden closure of the non-cooperation movement after the Chauri Chaura incident, Nehru remained loyal to Gandhi and did not join the Swaraj Party formed by his father Motilal Nehru and CR Das.

Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.

When the Congress party under Nehru chose to contest elections and accept power under the Federation scheme, Gandhi resigned from party membership.

The Official Languages Act was eventually amended in 1967 by the Congress Government headed by Indira Gandhi to guarantee the indefinite use of Hindi and English as official languages.

Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.

Gandhi took leadership of Congress in 1920 and began a steady escalation of demands ( with Intermittent compromises or pauses ) until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India.

Gandhi and Congress withdrew their support of the Raj when the Viceroy declared war on Germany in September 1939 without consulting anyone.

Tensions escalated until Gandhi demanded immediate independence in 1942 and the British responded by imprisoning him and tens of thousands of Congress leaders for the duration.

In 1919 Gandhi, with his weak position in Congress, decided to broaden his base by increasing his appeal to Muslims.

In 1920 Gandhi became a major leader in Congress.

With Congress now behind him in 1920, Gandhi had the base to employ non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance as his " weapons " in the struggle against the British Raj.

In December 1921, Gandhi was invested with executive authority on behalf of the Indian National Congress.

In this year, Gandhi was persuaded to preside over the Congress session to be held in Belgaum.

Gandhi pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress in December 1928 calling on the British government to grant India dominion status or face a new campaign of non-cooperation with complete independence for the country as its goal.

The result was that Gandhi became not only a folk hero but the Congress was widely seen in the villages as his sacred instrument.

Also as a result of the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

In 1934 Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership.

* " Working with Rajiv Gandhi " by R. D.

Gandhi criticised the 16 May proposal as being inherently divisive, but Patel, realising that rejecting the proposal would mean that only the League would be invited to form a government, lobbied the Congress Working Committee hard to give its assent to the 16 May proposal.

The Congress Working Committee gave Gandhi the responsibility for organizing the first act of civil disobedience, with Congress itself ready to take charge after Gandhi's expected arrest.

Working closely with her husband, Kasturba Gandhi became a political activist fighting for civil rights and Indian independence from the British.

For some of Congress's history over the past century, especially under Indira Gandhi, this office has been combined with that of President of the All India Congress Committee, or Congress President, but the duties are different, with the Working President often being a person of great influence within the organisational structure of the party rather than of great political popularity.

" In a meeting of the Congress Working Committee Gandhi said, " I cannot sit quiet as long as Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia is in prison.

Over the years, he has held several important positions in the Government of India and the Society, such as: Additional Solicitor General of India ( December 1989 – 1990 ); Member, Board of Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University ( 1993 ); President, Supreme Court Bar Association ( 1995 – 96, 1997 – 98 and 2001 – 2002 ); Member, Rajya Sabha ( July 1998 ); Member, Executive Council, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies ( July, 2001 ); Member, Business Advisory Committee ( August, 2001 ); Member, Committee on Home Affairs ( January, 2002 ); Co-chairman, Indo-US Parliamentary Forum ( 2002 ); Member, Board of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ( 2002 ); Member, Programme Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Indian AIDS initiative ( 2003 ); Member, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention set up by the Human Rights Commission, Geneva.

The Viceroy took the hint and promptly ordered the unconditional release of Gandhi and all members of the Congress Working Committee.

His son Rahul Gandhi is a Member of Parliament and the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee.

In 1992, the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award was instituted by All India Congress Committee ( AICC ) of the Indian National Congress Party ( INC ).

Maulana Azad | Azad, Patel and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Gandhi at an All India Congress Committee | AICC meeting in Bombay, 1940

Gandhi strongly pressured the All India Congress Committee to approve of an all-out campaign of civil disobedience, and the AICC approved the campaign on 7 August 1942.

Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 in a reshuffle of the party secretariat.

PNB has had the privilege of maintaining accounts of national leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, Shrimati Indira Gandhi, as well as the account of the famous Jalianwala Bagh Committee.

Fernandes was also a patron of the LTTE-backed Fund Raising Committee, set up to help the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Sonia Gandhi appointed him as the General Secretary of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee the State Unit of the Congress party.

Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi overruled the Cabinet Secretary and decided to accept the original recommendation of the Rustamji Committee to place the service under the Ministry of Defense.

The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called " an orderly British withdrawal " from India.

Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 and was given charge of the Indian Youth Congress along with the National Students Union of India.

Those from the Direct Action Committee were absolute pacifists, some of them Christians, who followed Gandhi and wanted to use direct action to create a non-violent society.

But few days later, at a session of the All India Congress Committee, J. P. Narayan and the other CSP leaders pledged not to start any other movements parallel to those initiated by Gandhi.

Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, " The greatest omission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize.

After the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in October 1984, a review was undertaken by a Committee of Secretaries and it was decided to entrust security of the Prime Minister to a Special Group under unitary and direct control of a designated Officer and the STF to provide immediate security cover both in New Delhi and outside.

Mr. Ramesh was part of the 19-member ' Foundation Day Committee ' of the All India Congress Committee ( AICC ), under the chairmanship of party president Sonia Gandhi, for planning the 2010 year-long celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the Congress Party.

Gogoi became a political leader with national stature after he was elected Joint Secretary of the All India Congress Committee ( AICC ) in 1976 under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.