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Why did the salt laws become an important issue of struggle?



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Poorest of poor Indian consume food that has salt as one of its prime ingredient. British government brought tax on salt and making salt indigenously was forbidden. It was to become a big burden on the poor people of India. Some important points regarding salt law are as follows.

  1. Salt law was to lead to monopoly of salt production and distribution. It was to fuel prices, and added to this was the tax levied by the government.
  2. People were denied access to natural salt and tons of the same were destroyed.
  3. Salt law was an attack on the local industry in the villages too.
  4. Hence salt law was extremely unpopular and it became an important issue of the struggle.

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