New Delhi , Mahatma Gandhi, who led efforts to end British rule in India and was repeatedly imprisoned, is to be honoured with a statue outside the UK parliament which will stand alongside tributes to several colonial-era enemies.
British Finance Minister George Osborne, on a trip to New Delhi to meet the new government there, wrote on Twitter that Britain would "honour his memory" with a statue in Parliament Square.
India's independence hero will therefore rub shoulders with his one-time nemesis, British wartime PM Winston Churchill, who once said he hoped Gandhi would die from fasting and famously derided him as a "half-naked fakir".
Osborne and Foreign Secretary William Hague was to meet Modi later yesterday as part of efforts to push for trade and access for British companies to the Indian market
India's independence hero will therefore rub shoulders with his one-time nemesis, British wartime PM Winston Churchill, who once said he hoped Gandhi would die from fasting and famously derided him as a "half-naked fakir".
Osborne and Foreign Secretary William Hague was to meet Modi later yesterday as part of efforts to push for trade and access for British companies to the Indian market
