Father of the Nation

Father of the Nation is an honorific title given to a man considered the driving force behind the establishment of their country, state or nation. The term founding fathers may be used if more than one person is considered key.

 Mahatma Gandhi was never formally conferred the title of 'Father of the Nation' by the government. 

There are various father of the nation of other countries who had  declared official gazette. 

Even Pakistan had declared as under;

Mohammad Ali Jinnah Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Great Leader Founder of Pakistan, leader of the Muslim League and first Governor-General of Pakistan.

Neta ji subhash Chandra Bose was the first person to call Gandhi ji Rashtra Pita. He did this first on the radio, when Gandhi started war against the British in Myanmar in1944.

Later, it was recognised by the Indian government. When Gandhi was assassinated, India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a radio address to the nation, had announced that the Father of the Nation "is no more."

This was stated by the Home Ministry in reply to an RTI query.
"Although Mahatma Gandhi is popularly known as 'Father of the Nation', no such title was ever formally conferred upon him by the government," Shyamala Mohan, Director and Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), said in a reply dated June 18 this year.
The query was filed by social activist Abhishek Kadyan with the Home Ministry on May 21, 2012 seeking information about declaration of Mahatma Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation'.
Abhishek Kadyan is an advisor to Italy based animal rights NGO OIPA.
Earlier, Aishwarya Parashar, a Class-VI student from Lucknow, had filed a similar query through the Right to Information (RTI) Act seeking a photocopy of the order through which Mahatma Gandhi was declared as 'Father of the Nation' and was informed that there were no specific documents on the information sought.
In February, she had sent the RTI application to the central public information officer of Prime Minister's Office.
From the PMO, the application was forwarded to Ministry of Home Affairs. The MHA, however, stating that it does not come under its purview forwarded the application to the National Archives of India.
The NAI in its reply sent to Aishwarya had said: "As per the search among the public records in the NAI there is no specific document on the information being sought by you."

A Lucknow girl's simple query to know if Mahatma Gandhi was ever conferred the title of 'The Father of The Nation' has come a cropper.

From the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to the ministry of home affairs (MHA) no one seems to really know the answer to the 10-year-old's question. 

 

RTI Foundation of India

Although Mahatma Gandhi is popularly known as 'Father of the Nation', no such title was ever formally conferred upon him by the government," Director and Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Ministry of Home Affairs said in a reply to an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act seeking information about declaration of Mahatma Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation'. Earlier, a student from Lucknow had filed a similar query through the Right to Information (RTI) Act seeking a photocopy of the order through which Mahatma Gandhi was declared as 'Father of the Nation' and was informed that there were no specific documents on the information sought. The RTI application was filed with Prime Minister's Office, from where it was forwarded to Ministry of Home Affairs and finally to the National Archives of India. In its reply the NIA had said: "As per the search among the public records in the NAI there is no specific document on the information being sought by you.