Speaker V.Sabapathy, Ministers, legislators and officials of various departments were among those who paid homage at the statue.
A team of teachers of government sponsored Bharathiar Palkalaikoodam sang devotional songs. A two minute silence was observed at the venue.
Puducherry PCC leader A V Subramanian led party workers and functionaries to pay tributes at the portrait of the Mahatma at the party office and observed a few minutes of Silence. The leaders later garlanded Gandhi's statue on beach road.
