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INDIA’S Hindu chauvinist Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew widespread criticism today after budgeting 2 billion rupees (£20 million) for a statue in his home state.
The 600-ft iron-and-bronze statue — more than twice the size of the Statue of Liberty or the Motherland memorial to Stalingrad — will be erected to Indian independence leader Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat.
Women’s campaigners pointed out that the price of the monument — the Statue of Unity — dwarfed the 1.5 billion rupees assigned to women’s safety nationwide or the 1 billion rupees devoted to girls’ education.
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