Gandhi statue at British Parliament will cement India ties: PM

January 10, 2015 19:01

Justifying the decision to install a Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Parliament Square in London, Prime Minister David Cameron has said the initiative would lead to Britain cementing its historical connection with India.

Cameron said there were "lots of reasons for the Gandhi statue to be installed at the British Parliament" alongside Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill and South Africa apartheid icon Nelson Mandela."

"One (reason) is the importance of Gandhi to Indian history and the importance of Gandhi's teachings of non-violence and peaceful protests," Cameron said.

The British Prime Minister said the initiative would lead to Britain cementing its historical connection with India.

"A statue of Mahatma Gandhi standing alongside Churchill and Mandela at Parliament Square is highly appropriate and I am highly delighted that we have done this relatively quickly as sometimes the statues take a long time to be commissioned," he said.

The statue was announced during a UK delegation visit to India last year following which the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust, a charity founded by NRI economist Lord Meghnad Desai, has been raising funds for it.

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