Did Sandip, anti-hero in Ghare Baire, have a moral route for his struggle?

While both Ray and Tagore, from whose eponymous novel the film was adapted, seem to favour Nikhilesh, Sandip's 'perfect counterfoil', one wonders if Sandip has any need to follow a moral route

When nationalist leader Sandip (Soumitra Chatterjee) — the anti-hero in Satyajit Ray’s 1984 film Ghare Baire — realises that poor, Muslim villagers will not join his movement against the Partition of Bengal (1905-1911) and abjure foreign-made goods in favour of swadeshi alternatives, he decides to change his tactics. Sandip gets his gang of schoolboys to loot British goods from traders in the village and does a bonfire, with the background of Vande Mataram. When the manager of the local estate warns him that the police will get involved, he says that he will set fire to the granaries of those