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A Leader Who Never Lead : Mohandas Gandhi
Tushar A. Gandhi તુષાર ગાંધી ૧૭ જાન્યુઆરી ૧૯૬૦ ના જન્મેલા તેમના પિતા અરુણ મણિલાલ ગાંધી હતા તેઓ આદર્શ વિનય મંદિર ગુજરાતી માધ્યમમાં ભણતા હતા. તુષાર ગાંધી મહાત્મા ગાંધી ફાઉન્ડેશન ચલાવે છે તેઓ ઓસ્ટ્રેલિયન ઇન્ડિયન રૂરલ ડેવલપમેન્ટ ફાઉન્ડેશનના ચેરમેન છે. હાલમાં તેમને લખેલ પુસ્તક Let's Kill Gandhi માં આપણને ઇતિહાસના મહત્વના દસ્તાવેજો પ્રાપ્ત થયા છે.
'Only he can be leader Who never loses hope'- the Ashramites saw and emulated. When Bapu Bapu Ke Ashirwad : February 12, 1946
Made the practice of the 11 vows, Edadash Vrat, What can be a better and simpler definition of "Ahimsa Satya Asteya Bhramhcharya Aparigraha a leader than this and what can be more profound Sharirashrama Aswada Sarvatra Bhayavarjana in its simplicity. Mohandas Gandhi, Bapu, not only Sarva Dharma Samanatva Swadeshi Sparsha believed in this but embodied this statement. He Bhavana'. compulsory he was living living these did not lose hope of bringing about a change after without preaching them or making a show of doing being thrown out of the train at Peitermaritzburg so. 'An ounce of Practice is of more significance Station in South Africa, nor did he give up hope after than a Ton of preaching' Bapu believed, and so it the out break of violence by Satyagrahis in Chauri was easy for his followers to believe him and follow Chaura during the first Civil Disobedience suit. Today leaders thrive on preaching and movement which he suspended when all his confusing their followers, they frown upon and colleagues felt that they were on the verge of a discourage the habit of questioning and allowing victory. Only Bapu was confident that he could their followers to express discontent or and suspend the movement and revive it later when he disagreeing opinion. was more confident about the preparedness of his When Bapu suggested that the next Non people and their discipline.
Cooperation Movement would begin with the Many other leaders become hostages of their breaking of the Salt Monopoly brutally imposed by followers and are fearful of their backlash if the the Colonial Regime, after he marched from leaders were to admoish or criticize them or were Sabarmati to Dandi and picked up a fist full of salt to order them to stop and that's where we see from the sea shore and declared that the Salt Law movements and especially protests turn into ugly of the British was broken. Many senior leaders of incidents of rioting and arson and the leaders unable the Congress were not convinced and were to control the protests that they themselves planned opposed to the proposal. Sardar Patel disagreed and launched. This is not leadership, a leader is and argued about the foolishness of the proposal like a puppeteer, only one who has the ability of Bapu gave him a patient hearing and finally those who have intelligence and rational thinking convinced Sardar, who then look the responsibility and yet like a master puppeteer, the leader controls of organising the protest. It was Sardar who finalised their every action and is able to confine them to a the route of the march and spread the message of restricted arena or actions. Bapu exhibited these the Namak Satyagraha and he was the first leader ability through out his entire life in his public entity who was arrested and imprisoned even before as well as in the Ashram life.
Bapu began the Dandi Kooch. Thatswhy Sardar In the Ashram to as a head of the Ashram Bapu Saheb was absent while Bapu marched to Dandi performed all the acts, the Ashram rituals him self and the subsequent Salt Satyagraha. The other and made them into a daily natural habit, this is what senior leader of the Congress to voice his dissent
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