Gandhi Monument Council in UK has urged the Mayors of top ten cities to name one of the major streets of their respective cities after the respected Mahatma Gandhi. Council Co-ordinators, Gene Savoy Jr and Rajan Zed, requested that the proposed street be named "Mahatma Gandhi Marg".
The cities to which the Gandhi Monument council wrote are London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leicester.
The council, with headquarters in America, is comprised of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Bahais, native Americans, etc. According to Zed and Savoy, the purpose of this council is to commemorate Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence, his commitment to world peace and his work for the uplift of the downtrodden.