GANDHIJI by JUGATRAM DAVE

Once Gandhiji had stayed at Gokhale’s house in Calcutta (Kolkata). While returning Gokhaleji went to see him off. Gandhiji requested him not to go through all that trouble but he did not listen to him. He said, “If you were traveling in the upper class just like others I wouldn’t have come. But since you are going in the third class, I must see you off.”
People like Gokhale who appreciated Gandhiji so much, were very rare in those days. Generally, people would laugh at it.
Gandhiji got an opportunity to know his poor countrymen while going through the suffering of the third class. Due to this only he could know their nature, their habits and so many other things about them. No other leader in the country knew the countrymen so well as Gandhiji did. That is how he became the saviour of the country and the people followed him with faith. The people were devoted to him.