Gandhi cap slogans and wearing Gandhi caps. In the 2014 election, the workers of Aam Aadmi Party widely wore the Gandhi cap with text printed on it.BJP supporters wore a similar saffron colored cap. Gandhi cap The Gandhi cap () is a white coloured sidecap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band. It is made out of "khadi". It takes its name after the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, who first popularised its use during the Indian independence movement. Worn commonly by Indian independence activists, it became a symbolic tradition for politicians and political activists to wear it in independent
Jawaharlal Nehru India in 1912, Nehru attended an annual session of the Indian National Congress in Patna. Congress in 1912 was the party of moderates and elites, and he was disconcerted by what he saw as "very much an English-knowing upper-class affair". Nehru harboured doubts regarding the effectiveness of Congress but agreed to work for the party in support of the Indian civil rights movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, collecting funds for the movement in 1913. Later, he campaigned against indentured labour and other such discrimination faced by Indians in the British colonies. When World War I broke out,