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it's a cultural problem , Gandhi also wrote about it in his book bahuroopi gandhi
"On his second trip to India from South Africa, Gandhi attended the Congress session in Calcutta. He came to plead because of the ill-treated Indians in South Africa The sanitary condition of the Congress camp was horrible. Some delegates used the verandah in front of their room as latrines, others did not object to it. Gandhi reacted immediately. When he spoke to the volunteers, they said; " This is not our job, this is a sweeper's job." Gandhi asked the broom and cleaned the filth. He was then dressed in western style. the volunteers were astonished but none came forward to assist him. Years later, when Gandhi became the guiding star of the Indian National Congress, volunteers formed a bhangi squad in the Congress camps. Once the brahmins only worked as bhangis. Two thousand teachers and students were specially trained for doing scavenging at the Haripura Congress. Gandhi could not think of having a set of people labeled as untouchables for cleaning filth and dirt. He wanted to abolish untouchability from India."
"On his second trip to India from South Africa, Gandhi attended the Congress session in Calcutta. He came to plead because of the ill-treated Indians in South Africa The sanitary condition of the Congress camp was horrible. Some delegates used the verandah in front of their room as latrines, others did not object to it. Gandhi reacted immediately. When he spoke to the volunteers, they said; " This is not our job, this is a sweeper's job." Gandhi asked the broom and cleaned the filth. He was then dressed in western style. the volunteers were astonished but none came forward to assist him. Years later, when Gandhi became the guiding star of the Indian National Congress, volunteers formed a bhangi squad in the Congress camps. Once the brahmins only worked as bhangis. Two thousand teachers and students were specially trained for doing scavenging at the Haripura Congress. Gandhi could not think of having a set of people labeled as untouchables for cleaning filth and dirt. He wanted to abolish untouchability from India."
