{"id":3415,"date":"2008-09-16T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/09\/16\/group-urges-cities-to-adopt-gandhi-street-names\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:42:42","slug":"group-urges-cities-to-adopt-gandhi-street-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/16\/group-urges-cities-to-adopt-gandhi-street-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Group urges cities to adopt Gandhi street names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>The Gandhi Monument Council offers proposal<\/b><\/p>\n<div><strong>A MULTI-faith group has called for cities across the UK to rename major roads after Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>American-based The Gandhi Monument Council wrote to the Mayors of ten cities with the request.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The group, which comprises of members from a Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish background suggested selected street names be changed to \u2018Mahatma Gandhi Marg\u2019 \u2013\u2018marg\u2019 meaning path. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The cities to which the Council wrote are London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Leicester.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A spokesperson for the group said they hoped the proposal would be taken on board as \u201cGandhi\u2019s life and thought had an enormous impact on the world\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Earlier this year Leicester City Council approved plans to erect a statue of Gandhi in the city\u2019s Belgrave area. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gandhi Monument Council offers proposal A MULTI-faith group has called for cities across the UK to rename major roads after Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. &#13; American-based The Gandhi Monument Council wrote to the Mayors of ten cities with the request. &#13; The group, which comprises of members from a Christian, Muslim, Hindu and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}