In the words of celebrated novelist, Jnanpitha Award Winner and his biographer Gopinath Mohanty , There was a tremor in Orissa.

[6]His resignation, which was an extraordinary step and a brave decision, brought him immediately to the middle of the Indian freedom movement.

He laid the foundation of famous "Alakashrama" near the banks of Alaka river January 1922.

Along with imparting education, the school also taught sanitation work and ran programmes to fight the communicable diseases like malaria and cholera.

[1] In his political thought, he was a dedicated Congressman with unwavering faith in Mahatma Gandhi.

His belief was a strong Congress would be crucial to achieving independence from British.Hence His goal was to strengthen the Congress.He did not contest the elections for Provincial Legislative Assembly.

he led a group of Congress workers who would shun power, who would not sit on any committee nor would be members of any Board.

One of the places he visited during his travel was a remote village Bari, in Jajpur subdivision of the erstwhile Cuttack district.

Gandhi suggested Gopabandhu to choose one of such place and to stay there to work with the people.

He also encouraged local people into vocations such as apiculture, dairy farm, basket and mattress production.

[1] He translated Mahatma Gandhi's biography "my experiments with truth" to odia, "satyara prayog"[13] India got independence in 1947.

He boycotted the 1952 elections and joined the Acharya Vinoba Bhave led Bhoodan movement.