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A monument of India’s independence movement leader, Mahatma Gandhi is to be erected in the Parliament Square, London (England), officials said on Tuesday (November 4).
The plan to build the statue was announced by Chancellor, George Osborne and Foreign Secretary, William Hague in July during a visit to the site of Gandhi’s assassination by a Hindu extremist in New Delhi (India) in 1948.
The bronze statue will feature him wearing a shawl and traditional dhoti skirt with his hands clasped together. It was inspired by an iconic photo of Gandhi standing in front of 10 Downing Street in 1931.
