The 'Civil Disobedience Movement' boycotted foreign cloth and picketed liquor shops. Peasants refused to pay revenue and taxes, village officials resigned. The Colonial Government repressed the members participating in movement.
(i) In many places, forest people violated forest laws by going into reserved forests to collect wood and graze cattle. Worried by the developments, the colonial government began arresting the Congress leader one by one. This lead to violent clashes in many places.
(ii) Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a devout disciple was arrested in April 1930. Many people were killed who protested it.
(iii) When Mahatma Gandhi was arrested, industrial workers of Sholapur attacked police posts, municipal buildings, law courts and railway stations.
(iv) British government was worried and frightened by these development of movement and it followed a policy of brutal repression.
(v) Peaceful Satyagrahis were attacked, women and children were beaten and about one lac people were arrested.