Gandhi punished a Congress minister for appointing an Untouchable to cabinet

Evidence

Dr Khare openly said that according to Mr Gandhi the act of indiscipline consisted in the inclusion of an Untouchable in the Ministry. Dr Khare also said that Mr Gandhi told him that it was wrong on his part to have raised such aspirations and ambitions in the Untouchables and it was such an act of bad judgement that he would never forgive him. This statement was repeatedly made by Dr Khare from platforms. Mr Gandhi has never contradicted it. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1324

Categorization

• QUESTION: If true and uncontradicted, this is damning — worth verifying Gandhi’s silence on the Khare affair as documented elsewhere.
• XREF: Complicates the standard hagiographic Gandhi narrative in the reader’s caste-annihilation history — a concrete counterexample to claims of Congress championing Dalit uplift.