Special Session of Congress (1920)
- The Congress approved a non-cooperation programme at a special session in Calcutta (September 1920) until the wrongs of the Punjab and Khilafat were righted and swaraj was established. Lala Lajpat Rai presided over the Special Session.
- The people were asked:
- To boycott government educational institutions, law courts, and legislatures;
- To boycott foreign clothes and practise hand-spinning and hand-weaving to produce khadi.
- To surrender officially conferred honours and titles.
- There were some differences over this as some leaders like C.R. Das was not willing to include a boycott of councils, but bowed to Congress discipline; these leaders boycotted elections held in November 1920 and the ....
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