Bjp To Build Statue

"It is the world's highest octa-metal statue of Lord Hanuman," said BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayavargiya. It took 15-16 years to build the 72 by 72 feet statue, he added.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee -- accused by the BJP of engineering the vandalism of the statue of 19th Century reformer Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar -- provided a laundry list of such destruction the BJP is allegedly responsible for.

In a bid to woo the Nishad (boatman) community ahead of the final two phases of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday promised to build an 80-feet tall statue of Nishadraj in Shringverpur in Allahabad district.

Hours before a massive push for the Ayodhya temple could mobilise resentment against the alleged delay on the part of the ruling BJP, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday night raced to announce key details of the Ram statue it plans to build on the banks of the Sarayu river. The statue is expected to measure 221 metres - topping even the famed...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the NDA government of destroying key Indian institutions such as the CBI and the RBI and claimed that after the Lok Sabha elections, BJP has made 'building statues' its poll agenda will itself be reduced to a statue. Giving a call for "BJP hatao, desh bachao", she said the BJP should be ouste...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and South Korea's first lady Kim Jung-Sook will be in Ayodhya today as the state government and the ruling BJP places the spotlight on the temple town again this Diwali. The big announcement is expected to be the details of a statue of Lord Ram the government is planning to build here.

On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 'Statue of Unity', the world's tallest statue dedicated to freedom icon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has asked the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS to apologise for criticising her government for getting statues of Dalit icons installed in parks in Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP will reconstruct the razed statue of Tripura's communist leader Baidyanath Majumder and the police are probing the incident, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said here on Saturday. Majumder's life-sized statue was knocked down late on Wednesday in Unakoti district headquarters Kailashahar.

A fitting tribute to a local legend or a grotesque misuse of money? The decision to build the world's tallest statue just off Mumbai's coast has divided the city.

The story of Shaktiman, the white horse of the Uttarakhand police which lost its leg in an attack during a BJP protest and died soon after, had moved many across the country earlier this year. Now, a memorial is being built to the 13-year-old, exactly at the spot where he had been injured.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today promised to build a Buddha statue taller than the ones in Bamiyan in Afghanistan which were blown up by the Taliban, if BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh in next year's polls.

BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will flag off a two-kilometre run for unity in Vadodara in Gujarat on Sunday in what is being billed as a major mobilisation event for his dream project of building a giant statue of Sardar Patel.

Narendra Modi is building the world's tallest statue at a cost of almost $340 million (Rs 2074 crore) in honour of one of the country's founding fathers, a project he is using to undermine his chief rivals, the Gandhi-Nehru political dynasty.

"It is the world's highest octa-metal statue of Lord Hanuman," said BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayavargiya. It took 15-16 years to build the 72 by 72 feet statue, he added.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee -- accused by the BJP of engineering the vandalism of the statue of 19th Century reformer Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar -- provided a laundry list of such destruction the BJP is allegedly responsible for.

In a bid to woo the Nishad (boatman) community ahead of the final two phases of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday promised to build an 80-feet tall statue of Nishadraj in Shringverpur in Allahabad district.

Hours before a massive push for the Ayodhya temple could mobilise resentment against the alleged delay on the part of the ruling BJP, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday night raced to announce key details of the Ram statue it plans to build on the banks of the Sarayu river. The statue is expected to measure 221 metres - topping even the famed...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the NDA government of destroying key Indian institutions such as the CBI and the RBI and claimed that after the Lok Sabha elections, BJP has made 'building statues' its poll agenda will itself be reduced to a statue. Giving a call for "BJP hatao, desh bachao", she said the BJP should be ouste...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and South Korea's first lady Kim Jung-Sook will be in Ayodhya today as the state government and the ruling BJP places the spotlight on the temple town again this Diwali. The big announcement is expected to be the details of a statue of Lord Ram the government is planning to build here.

On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 'Statue of Unity', the world's tallest statue dedicated to freedom icon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has asked the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS to apologise for criticising her government for getting statues of Dalit icons installed in parks in Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP will reconstruct the razed statue of Tripura's communist leader Baidyanath Majumder and the police are probing the incident, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said here on Saturday. Majumder's life-sized statue was knocked down late on Wednesday in Unakoti district headquarters Kailashahar.

A fitting tribute to a local legend or a grotesque misuse of money? The decision to build the world's tallest statue just off Mumbai's coast has divided the city.

The story of Shaktiman, the white horse of the Uttarakhand police which lost its leg in an attack during a BJP protest and died soon after, had moved many across the country earlier this year. Now, a memorial is being built to the 13-year-old, exactly at the spot where he had been injured.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today promised to build a Buddha statue taller than the ones in Bamiyan in Afghanistan which were blown up by the Taliban, if BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh in next year's polls.

BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will flag off a two-kilometre run for unity in Vadodara in Gujarat on Sunday in what is being billed as a major mobilisation event for his dream project of building a giant statue of Sardar Patel.

Narendra Modi is building the world's tallest statue at a cost of almost $340 million (Rs 2074 crore) in honour of one of the country's founding fathers, a project he is using to undermine his chief rivals, the Gandhi-Nehru political dynasty.