Earlier elimination of statue has snowballed in a serious controversy with opposition Congress protesting the transfer and alleging that this was disrespect by BJP to the daddy of the Nation.
Mahatma's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi had scaled up the matter to Assam chief minister.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma reacting to a publish by Mahatma's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi had written on X: “I'm not conscious of this determination taken by the district administration. Let me confirm the information.” The chief minister additionally maintained that Assam owes a lot to Mahatma Gandhi.
“He stood firmly with Bharat Ratna Gopinath Bordoloi when the Congress celebration led by Nehru wished to incorporate Assam in Pakistan underneath the Grouping Plan,” Sarma had acknowledged on the microblogging website.
Tushar Gandhi wrote, “Not shocking that the BJP authorities in Assam determined to interchange Bapu's statue with a clock tower in Dibrugarh. Their slavish colonial hangover persists.”The 60-year-old statue was eliminated as half Doom Doom's makeover challenge which included constructing a clock tower and changing the outdated statue with one other statue.Massive folks turned out to witness the installations and inauguration of the clock tower on Wednesday.Officers in Municipal Board, “The statue necessitated substitute as one facet of the spectacles of the statue was broken and there have been a few damages which have crept within the statue over time. The face of the statue was going through the outdated AT Raad which is not the entry level of Doom Dooma city.”
Assam minister for Labour and Doomdooma MLA Rupesh Gowala mentioned, “We had assured a brand new and taller statue of the Father of the Nation can be erected on the identical website and right this moment we've got finished so. This was our dedication to the folks, and we've got fulfilled the identical.”
Lakhimpur MP Pradan Baruah laid the muse stone of the challenge earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
When the contractor had begun the work a pair, former MLA of Doomdooma and Congress chief Durga Bhumij together with some Congressmen arrived on the website and opposed the elimination of the statue of Gandhi and constructing a clock tower there.
Bhumij had alleged that the BJP by no means paid due respect to Gandhi. As a substitute, it at all times gave respect to Nathuram Godse. At a time when Gandhi's statue was arrange in as many as 80 nations all over the world, the Board goes to construct a clock tower by eradicating the statue of the Father of the Nation.”
