Monday 23 February 2015

Mahatma Gandhi memorial to be unveiled in Parliament Square




Kasia Madera went to Parliament Square to see the sculpture's new home

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be unveiled in Parliament Square next month.
It will be revealed on 14 March after donations to the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust passed £1 million.
The sculpture is inspired by photographs of the civil rights leader outside 10 Downing Street in 1931.
Gandhi will be the first Indian, and the only person never to have been in public office, to be honoured with a statue in the square.
His memorial will stand alongside those of Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela opposite the Houses of Parliament.
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