World Politics News Mahatma Gandhi, who was at the forefront of efforts to end British rule in India and was repeatedly imprisoned, is to be honoured outside Britains parliament, British finance minister George Osborne said Tuesday. 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 statue in front of mother of parliaments in Parliament Square. This would mean Indias father of the nation will stand near his one-time nemesis, British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, who once said he hoped Gandhi would die from fasting and famously derided him as a half-naked fakir. Parliament Square is opposite the Palace of Westminster which houses the British legislature, and is filled with statues of statesmen and other historical figures.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:39:23 +0000
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