The visage of the country's first deputy PM, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,
who was fondly called the 'Iron man of India,' now stands clad in
bronze in the shape of the world's tallest statue (182 metres, twice the
height of the Statue of Liberty) built at a project cost of Rs 2,979
crore on Sadhu Beyt. The statue, befitting Sardar's stature, is set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 31, Sardar's birth anniversary, with BJP setting the ball rolling for its 2019 Lok Sabha poll campaigns. The project website says that nearly 3 lakh soil samples were collected,
along with 700 tonnes of iron in the form of donated farm equipment
from across the country. And now the Statue of Unity's completion will
serve as the bugle for the BJP machinery to mobilize the masses with the
message of national unity, and prime them for 2019.
You can find more details at http://www.statueofunity.in/
