Lucknow: It seems BJP’s lasting legacy will be not development but statues – one bigger than the other. Amid the ongoing clamour to build a Ram temple, the Yogi government has finalised plans to install in the temple town a 221-meter statue of the Maryada Purushotam, taller than the Statue of Unity of Sardar Patel. While the “Statue of Unity”, presently the world’s tallest, is 182 metres high, the one to come up in Ayodhya will be 221 metres.
While the height of the Ram statue will be 151 metres, its overhead umbrella would be of 20 metres height and the pedestal would be of 50 metres, Principal Secretary Information Avnish Awasthi said. Inside the base, there will be a provision for a modern museum that will showcase the history of Ayodhya and the entire ‘Ikshvaku Vansh’ right from King Manu to the present. The statue will be made of bronze. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath saw late Saturday night the presentation by five firms shortlisted for construction of the statue.
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