Canada named its city street name after Mahatma Gandhi

Toronto: A street in Canada’s Winnipeg city has been named after Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of India’s 67th Independence Day.

“Mahatma Gandhi was a spiritual and political leader whose influence is still felt today,” Katz told a crowd that included representatives from the Indian and aboriginal communities.

Mahatma Gandhi “was the symbolic figure, a person who signified the struggle for human rights,” said Krishnamurti Dakshinamurti, president of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre of Canada.

The Mahatma Gandhi name was originally set aside for a new street in Transcona. But civic officials reversed themselves in 2010 after a request from the Mahatma Gandhi Centre that the name be attached to a street near the museum.