Signs The Satyagraha Pledge
The year 1919 saw the Rowlatt Act and the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. Sadashiv Rao was among the first few and the very first in Karnataka to sign the Satyagraha pledge.
It was Sadashiv Rao who unfurled the Congress banner in Karnataka and carried the Congress message to every hamlet and village, trekking long distances by day and by night.
Sadashiv Rao’s residence had become a center of Congress activities and many notables had been his guests. He accompanied Gandhiji, Kasturba, C. R. Das, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Ali Brothers and others in tours through the district to generate enthusiasm for the Congress among the masses. As part of the constructive program, he organized spinning, weaving, handicraft and village reconstruction centers.
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