Gandhi publicly confessed his own sexual purity crisis undermined his moral authority.

Evidence

On 2 May 1938, after Gandhi had a seminal discharge at the age of sixty-four, in a letter to Amritlal Nanavati he said: “Where is my place, and how can a person subject to passion represent non-violence and truth?” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 486