Who was the founder of All India Harijan Sangh in 1932?

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68th BPSC Prelims (Held on 12 Feb 2023) (Set: B) - Official Paper

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The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi

Key PointsHarijan Sevak Sangh

The All India Harijan Sevak Sangh is an independent national-level non-profit voluntary Organisation, also known as the All India Anti-Untouchability League
It was founded on September 30, 1932, in the wake of Gandhiji’s Epic Fast at Yervada Jail, Pune, resulting in the historic Poona Pact
The Sangh was established to combat untouchability and a new weekly paper, the Harijan, was started
Since its inception, the organisation has helped the backward classes in many ways. The Sangh helped the depressed classes to access public places such as temples, schools, roads and water resources, also conducted inter dining and inter-caste marriages
Harijan Sevak Sangh had constructed and still maintains several schools and hostels across the country.

Objective of Harijan Sevak Sangh

The objective of Harijan Sevak Sangh was eradication, by truthful and nonviolent means, of untouchability in Hindu society with all its incidental evils and disabilities suffered by the so-called untouchables.