Mahatma gandhi as you know was against violent movement. He babruptly called off the non cooperation  movement when in February 1922 a crowd of peasants set fire to a poilice station in chauri chaura. Twenty two policemen were killed on that day the peasants were provoked because the police had fired on their peaceful demonstration once the non cooperation  movement was over gandhiji followers stressed that the congress must undertake constructive work in the rural areas other leaders such as chitta Ranjan  Das and motilal Nehru argued that the party should fight .electione to the councils and enter them in order to influence government  polici  through sincere social work in villages in the mid 1920 the Gandhinagar  were able to extend their support base this proved to the be very useful in launching the civil disobedience movement in 1930 .