2 October - Gandhi Jayanti
Gandhi Jayanti, it is a national festival celebrated in India to mark the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born on 2 October 1869 so it is celebrated annually on 2 October, and it is one of the three national holidays of India. He was also known as Bapu.
Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist,and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule. After he return to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for various social causes and for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
Gandhi led the Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later called on the British to leave India in 1942. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930. He was imprisoned many years in both South Africa and In India.
He ate simple vegetarian food, and undertook long fasts. He wore traditional dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He never used violence in his whole life, he along with all other freedom fighters devoted themselves to making India independent, that is why he was given the title of Father of the Nation and Mahatma Gandhi in India. He was assassinated on 30 January 1958 by Nathuram Godse, just 6 months after India's independence.
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