Gandhi Memorial Asram

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Gandhi Memorial Ashram, popularly known as Sodepur Khadi Ashram, is a heritage institution in Sodepur, Panihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal. It was established in 1924 by Satish Chandra Dasgupta, a Gandhian activist, scientist and former superintendent of Bengal Chemicals, as a Khadi Pratisthan. The ashram played an important role in India's freedom struggle, and Mahatma Gandhi called it his second home, like Sabarmati Ashram. Gandhi visited here several times from 1939 to 1947. Many national leaders visited too, including Rajendra Prasad, Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Sarat Chandra Bose, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, G. D. Birla, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Sarojini Naidu, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. Subhas Chandra Bose later decided to leave the Congress and form the All India Forward Bloc after a historic three-day meeting held at Gandhi Memorial Ashram.