Abbas Tyabji led the march of satyagrahis to raid the Dharasana Salt Works in May 1930, after:

Abbas Tyabji, a respected elderly judge from Gujarat, took over the leadership of the planned raid on the Dharasana Salt Works after Gandhi's arrest on 5 May 1930.

Background:

• After breaking the salt law at Dandi (6 April 1930), Gandhi announced that he would lead a raid on the government salt works at Dharasana, in Gujarat.
• Before he could do so, he was arrested on the night of 4-5 May 1930, at his camp at Karadi.

The raid:

• Abbas Tyabji, aged 76, led the satyagrahis, but he was arrested before reaching Dharasana.
• After his arrest, the leadership was taken over by a woman leader, who was also arrested.
• On 21 May 1930, about 2,500 satyagrahis, under the leadership of Imam Saheb and Manilal Gandhi, marched to the Dharasana Salt Works.

The police brutality:

• The satyagrahis marched in columns towards the salt works, and were met by policemen armed with steel-tipped lathis.
• The satyagrahis did not resist, and did not even raise their arms to protect themselves; they were beaten down, one after another.
• Hundreds were injured, and two were killed.
• The American journalist Webb Miller, of the United Press, witnessed the scene and reported it to the world, which shocked public opinion and gained sympathy for the Indian cause.

About Abbas Tyabji:

• He was born in 1854, in a well-known Muslim family of Baroda (Gujarat).
• He had been the Chief Justice of the Baroda High Court.
• He became a close follower of Gandhi after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and was a member of the Congress inquiry committee on the Punjab disturbances.
• He gave up his Western lifestyle, wore khadi, and travelled across Gujarat on foot and by bullock cart for the national cause.
• Gandhi called him "the Grand Old Man of Gujarat".
• He died in 1936.

Why not the other options?

• ✗The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Gandhi's release and the end of the Dandi March were not the events after which Tyabji led the march.