- The British Colonial government had committed India into the Second World War without the consent of the Indian people. - To oppose this decision by the foreign government, the Congress party decided to launch individual satyagraha. - On October the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi had chosen Acharya Vinoba Bhave as the first satyagrahi (proponent of satyagraha) to start personal satyagraha and Jawaharlal Nehru as the second