Mahatma Gandhi ought to be honoured with Congressional Gold Medal this year- US Lawmaker

Mahatma Gandhi, whose principles of non-violence motivated world pioneers, for example, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, ought to be regarded for the current year with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award in the US, as the world recognizes his 150th birth commemoration, a powerful American lawmaker has said.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney from New York, who in September a year ago presented a bill in the US House of Representatives to after death present the Congressional Gold Medal to Gandhi in acknowledgment of his advancement of nonviolence, said Gandhi has been a “really helpful pioneer, the notable figure”.

Gandhi was “transformational from multiple points of view” and a motivation to all Americans and individuals over the world, Maloney said while tending to a group of people at the Consulate General of India in New York at the occasion ‘Non Violence: A message of Lord Mahavir’ and the 150th birth commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi sorted out by the International Ahimsa Foundation USA (IAF).

She said Mandela and King both ascribed their logic of non-violence and their initiative to Gandhi and both are beneficiaries of the Congressional Gold Medal. “As of now Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King have gotten the Medal. It’s solitary right that the helpful pioneer for those two was Mahatma Gandhi thus he ought to get this award,” Maloney said.