- 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 17,1940, 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