Bengaluru, Jan. 27 -- Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President D K Shivakumar today said that the Congress has decided to name all the 6000 panchayat offices in Karnataka after Mahatma Gandhi.

Speaking after participating in Raj Bhavan Chalo, a protest march against the discontinuation of the MGNREGA scheme, he said that Mahatma Gandhi's legacy will become permanent once all gram panchayats are named after him.

"KPCC Vice President Ugrappa and KPCC office bearers have written to me about this. We have requested the CM about this. By naming gram panchayat offices after Mahatma Gandhi, his legacy will be made permanent. Gandhiji's conviction was to have a school, cooperative society and a panchayat for every village," he stated.

"We are ...