Gandhi Jayanti: Rahul, Sonia washed used plates at Sevagram because they had to

Wardha, Maharashtra: Senior Congress leaders, including party president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, were at Sevagram, Wardha, also known as Bapu Kuti in Maharashtra, to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary. Now, a video has gone viral in which Rahul and Sonia Gandhi are seen washing their used utensils.

It’s customary at Sevagram, where every individual is expected to wash his or her piece of used utensils. This was a practice started by the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi himself when he came to stay here in 1936. He stayed here till 1948, the last year of his life.

Seventy years after the man, who advocated a servant-free society, is gone, anyone visiting the ashram must still follow Gandhi’s principle, regardless of his or her stature.

No wonder then, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top brass of the Congress who are in Maharashtra’s Wardha for the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting followed the custom and washed their used utensils at the Bapu Kuti.

Senior Congressmen Ahmed Patel, Ashok Gehlot and Mallikarjun Kharge accompanied Rahul and Sonia Gandhi to Sevagram where the party president is reported to have planted a sapling next to a tree that was planted by his father and then Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi in 1986.

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