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In December 1916, Gandhi had gone to the annual convention of the Indian National Congress in Lucknow, where there were 2,301 delegates and many visitors. There, he met with a poor peasant, Rajkumar Shukla from Champaran. Shukla pleaded with Gandhi to visit his hometown and brought to GandhiтАЩs notice the miserable plight of the indigo farmers. This fuelled his campaign in 1917 to drive out the British from India.