Empty canopy looks odd at India Gate (New Delhi)
After opening of National War Memorial near India Gate in New Delhi, tourist footfall has tremendously increased in this area. Various governments concentrate too much on erecting statues. But it is indeed shocking and surprising that no government has ever thought of removing the eye-sore in form of empty canopy ever since statue of King George V was removed from here many decades ago.
Present Union Government should take an early decision to fill the gap by installing a combined statue of trio freedom-fighters Bhagatsingh-Sukhdev-Rajguru inside the canopy. Alternatively, a statue of Netaji Subhash Chand Bose can be installed in the canopy whose Azad Hind Fauz was instrumental (and not any nonviolent movement) in giving India freedom from Britishers.
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