India deploys huge security for inauguration of world’s biggest statue 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseThousands of police officers guarded the world’s biggest statue ahead of its inauguration by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, anticipating protests by angry locals displaced by the enormous figure. The chiefs of 22 villages around the statue signed an open letter calling on Modi to stay away from the inauguration. He is to pay tribute at the foot of the statue of Sardar, who has become a hero for nationalists. The statue is more than twice the size of New York’s Statue of Liberty and also dwarfs the 128 meter (400 feet) high Spring Temple Buddha in China, the world’s next-biggest statue.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 31, 2018 03:22 UTC