The Prime Minister inaugurated Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebrations on 4th February 2021. A postage stamp was also released to mark the centenary of the event.
Chauri Chaura Incident
On August 1, 1920, Gandhi had launched the Non-Cooperation Movement against the British rule, which involved a boycott of foreign goods, especially machine-made cloth, and legal, educational and administrative institutions, and refusing to assist a ruler who misrules.
In the winter of 1921-22, volunteers of the Congress and the Khilafat movement were organised into a national volunteer corp.
In mid-January 1922, after a meeting addressed by a functionary of the Gorakhpur Congress and Khilafat ....
