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103 among the common people۔Tilak, Pal and Lajpat Rai were popular leaders in a new sense۔Their sacrifices in the cause of freedom made them national heroes۔They wanted the Congress to appeal directly to the people instead of looking to the White Hall or the Government House۔The arrest and conviction of Tilak in 1908 led to widespread rioting۔The textile workers of Bombay went on a general strike as a protest against the government action۔Lenin aptly described۔this strike as the first political action of the Indian working class۔Within the Congress, the extremists tried to impart a militant tone to the organisation and to induce it to adopt an attitude of self-reliance and a technique of active opposition to the government"۔They failed to work a revolution inside the Congress, but they did succeed in persuading it to endorse their programme of Boycott and Swadeshi, at the 21st session (Banaras, 1905)۔Even Gokhale spoke enthusiastically of Swadeshi۔He said: "The devotion to the Motherland which is enshrined in the highest Swadeshism is an influence so profound and so passionate that its very thought thrills and its actual touch lifts one out of oneself"۔The 22nd Congress Calcutta, 1906) reiterated its approval of Boycott and Swadeshi and the president, Dadabhai Naroji Proclaimed Self-government or Swaraj like that of the U۔K۔or the colonies' as the ideal of the Congress۔"4 بغاوت اور جماعت احمدیہ اس فتنہ وفساد اور کھلی بغاوت نے پورے ملک کو اپنی لپیٹ میں لے لیا تو 12 مئی 1907ء کو حضرت مسیح موعود کی ہدایت و ارشاد پر مدرسہ تعلیم الاسلام قادیان کے صحن میں ایک جلسہ عام ہوا