Gandhi was a sexual predator (a thread):
In 1906 Gandhi took the Hindu vow of brahmacharya — which invokes a spiritually centered Hindu life that centers celibacy (the state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations). (1/n)

The belief in celibacy was enforced powerfully at his Ashrams throughout the country. His celibacy however, did not prevent him using the women members of his ashrams in participating in his “experiments” with sexuality. (2/n)

As he grew older he was to have more women around him and would oblige women to sleep with him whom – according to his segregated ashram rules – were forbidden to sleep with their own husbands. Gandhi would have women in his bed, engaging in his "experiments" (3/n)

These experiments were aimed at testing his vows of celibacy by putting himself in predatory closeness with women of all ages. This included sleeping, bathing, and receiving massages from them while they were naked.
(4/n)

The women involved included young and old women in the Ashram as well as his own grand-niece.
In his late 70s, before he died at 78, he slept naked with his grandniece when she was in her late teens. He said he wanted to test his willpower to abstain from sex. (n/n)