Explanation:

Gandhiji assured Nehru and the leftists that the withdrawal of the civil disobedience was dictated by the reality of the political situation. But this did not mean following a policy of drift or bowing down before political opportunists or compromising with imperialism. Only civil disobedience had been discontinued, the war continued. The new policy, he said, ‘is founded upon one central idea — that of consolidating the power of the people with a view to peaceful action.’