Breaking the salt law in the Civil Disobedience Movement was an example of which strategic choice?

Correct answer: Making an everyday item the centre of political resistance

The direct answer is A: making an everyday item the centre of political resistance. Salt was used by every household, rich or poor, and the colonial government taxed and controlled it. Gandhi therefore chose salt as a simple but powerful symbol for Civil Disobedience. In the Dandi March, he and his followers openly broke the salt law, showing that ordinary people could challenge an unjust rule through non-violent action. A is correct because a daily necessity connected the movement with the whole population. B is wrong because naval training was not the purpose of the action. C is wrong because forcing indigo cultivation belonged to a different agrarian issue. D is wrong because protecting gurdwara mahants was not the salt-law strategy. Memory cue: salt was small in price but enormous in political reach—every person needed it, so everyone could understand the protest.