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Opposition parties have slammed the LDF-ruled municipality for allegedly insulting the Mahatma using public funds.
The students of the School of Design, Media Arts and Creative Arts at the university collected glass waste from various locations.
Modi said Gandhi believed in the power of service and compassion as essential means of empowering people.
The project to build a Gandhi statue and a nearby park was envisaged as part of the beautification works of Nilamel junction.
The four-tonne rock statue, sculpted by Maraprabhu Ramachandran, marks the centenary of Gandhi's visit and is erected beneath the mango tree he planted.
In a country where politics so often leans on religion, here religion makes space for a constitutional symbol.
The work is expected to be completed within three months, informed officials from the Irrigation Department.
Tushar Gandhi reiterated his criticism of the Sangh Parivar at an event in UC College Aluva as part of the centenary celebrations of the Mahatma’s visit to the town.
Expo is memories and footage from the travels by poet P N Gopikrishnan, photographer Sudeesh Yezhuvath, painter Murali Cheeroth and videographer Prasoon Suresh.
To drive his point home, Unny cited the flood of cartoons featuring Gandhi during the tension caused by the Babri Masjid demolition.
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