NEW DELHI: Mahatma Gandhi, who led efforts to end British rule in India and was repeatedly imprisoned, is to be honoured with a statue outside the British Parliament which will stand alongside tributes to several colonial-era enemies.
British Finance Minister George Osborne, on a trip to New Delhi to meet the new government of Narendra Modi, wrote on Twitter that Britain would “honour his memory” with a statue in Parliament Square.
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