After a day of rest, at 6:00 the next morning, Bapu and the marchers left Samni and marched towards Tralsa. A big Landlord of Nellore donated Rupees one crore to Bapu. He criticized the practice of child marriage and condemned it as being evil. Kasturba along with a few women from the Ashram and her daughter-in-law Susheela joined Bapu here. That evening Bapu and the marchers left for Derol.
On the evening of 25th Ba Bapu and his band of marchers arrived at Derol. In his speech at Derol, Bapu said that Indian National Congress had been fighting for the removal of the draconian salt tax ever since its inception but the Colonial Government paid no heed to their demands, ‘So the time has come when we must become aggressive and break the salt law in defiance of governments unholy monopoly and the criminal tax it has imposed on the poorest of poor in India. When i have more than 8000 of volunteers with me why should I worry about the government? Let the government have the courage to arrest me’. He appealed for more Hindu Muslim unity to achieve independence for India. Gandhi and his band stayed that night in Derol.