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Specific Peasant Demands

10. Reduce land revenue by 50 per cent.

11. Abolish salt tax and government’s salt monopoly. With no positive response forthcoming from the government on these demands, the Congress Working Committee invested Gandhi with full powers to launch the Civil Disobedience Movement at a time and place of his choice. By February-end, Gandhi had decided to make salt

the central formula for the movement