WHY GANDHI LEFT CONGRESS ON OCTOBER 24.1934.

WHY GANDHI LEFT CONGRESS ON OCTOBER 24.1934.

Gandhi didn't wanted his personal stature or popularity to overpower different ideologies like communist, socialist etc.
Also he didn't want to fell prey to Raj propoganda that he is part of an organisation that believe in Raj Constitution ( as GOI act 1935, called for elections in provinces and Congress agreed to participate).
Nehru , Bose and other intelligentia were rising in stature and Congress was not the same as it was in 1920’s when people who don't want to agree to Gandhi had to resign like Jinnah resigned for Gandhi using religion for Mass struggle during Rawlatt Satyagraha.
Again he wanted to continue on his path of constructive work which he thought can be done independently after leaving Congress.
Also failure of Civil disobedience movement -2 also triggered independent voices come up and Poona pact with 1920–1930 riots showed him as upper caste Hindu leader and he wanted to do ground work to remove that perception.
- Shaiv Kashyap, works at EY

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Gandhi felt that he was out of touch with the powerful trends in the Congress. He was in fundamental disagreement with parliamentary politics and the growing influence of socialists whose cause was being championed by Jawahar Lal Nehru. Thus, vis-a-vis both groups, he said “for me to dominate the Congress is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from”. Hence, in October 1934, he announced his resignation from the Congress, saying “only to serve it better in thought, word and deed”. He backed Nehru for president-ship.
- John Wycliffe, Specialist- Computer Aided Engineering (2011-present)

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There was a move to introduce a bill ensuring every one including the untouchables to enter the temples. But certain sections of people stood against this. Gandhi was unhappy over this.
He was equally disturbed to find the congressmen’s internecine quarrels and their indiscipline and in that their practice was against the spirit of what they preached. Because of all this,Gandhi did not want to continue his relationship with the Congress party. He did not want to hide this from the people and so he issued a long statement explaining his mind and declaring that he had decided to quite the Congress.
He said several Congress people thought his charisma had eaten into their own importance. It was a fact that people and the congress had given great fidelity and trust towards him. At the same time the widening gulf of differences of opinion was also a fact. He gave top priority to hand-spun clothes and the spinning wheel, but the congressmen were not keen in keeping the spirit of his message.
He believed in non-violence and many of the congressmen had no faith in it. For Gandhi civil disobedience was a part of his principles of satyagraha. For him truth was God. He could find his god only through non-violence.
- Patrick George, a 'may be' civil servant.

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GANDHI IN LONDON FOR
SECOND ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE 1931

In 1934 Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership. He did not disagree with the party's position but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership, which actually varied, including communists, socialists, trade unionists, students, religious conservatives, and those with pro-business convictions, and that these various voices would get a chance to make themselves heard. Gandhi also wanted to avoid being a target for Raj propaganda by leading a party that had temporarily accepted political accommodation with the Raj.
Gandhi returned to active politics again in 1936, with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress. Although Gandhi wanted a total focus on the task of winning independence and not speculation about India's future, he did not restrain the Congress from adopting socialism as its goal. Gandhi had a clash with Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president in 1938, and who had previously expressed a lack of faith in nonviolence as a means of protest. Despite Gandhi's opposition, Bose won a second term as Congress President, against Gandhi's nominee, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya; but left the Congress when the All-India leaders resigned en masse in protest of his abandonment of the principles introduced by Gandhi. Gandhi declared that Sitaramayya's defeat was his defeat.
- shreya bhatt