Protests greet world's biggest statue in remote corner of India

Protests greet world's biggest statue in remote corner of India https://ift.tt/2yLlwAN October 29, 2018 at 03:34PM Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/1UaOSLt

Angry local communities have warned India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stay away from the inauguration on Wednesday of the world's biggest statue, a 182 metre (600 feet) high tribute to an independence hero. The Statue of Unity, which is twice the size of the Statue of Liberty, has been built in a remote corner of Gujarat state as a flagship project of conservative leader Modi who is to open it on Wednesday. Posters of Modi with Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani in a town near the statue were torn down or had the faces blackened at the weekend.

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