Statue of unity controversy7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Larsen and Toubro, the construction company that built the effigy, has admitted that its bronze cladding came from China. ![]() “In trying to politicize and usurp the legacies of our past leaders, the BJP is also making an attempt to demonize us.” ‘It’s a matter of shame’īesides its symbolism, questions have also been asked about the physical statue itself. “The BJP is trying to build a narrative that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru were always at loggerheads,” Priyanka Chaturvedi, a spokesperson for Congress, tells TIME. However, Modi has argued in the past that Patel was politically sidelined by both Congress and Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister (whose great-grandson Rahul Gandhi happens to be Modi’s opponent in the upcoming election).Ĭongress refutes this. Repeated requests for comment made to several BJP spokespersons for this article went unanswered. Gandhi’s killer, Nathuram Godse, had been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the paramilitary Hindu organization regarded as the parent of the BJP. “For a party that claims to do everything in the name of the nation, they don’t have a past to invoke,” Sucheta Mahajan, professor at the Center of Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, tells TIME.Įven worse, the BJP does have a connection to the assassin of independence icon Mahatma Gandhi, who was slain in 1948. ![]()
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