'India’s Tallest Ambedkar Statue': Telangana CM KCR To Unveil 125-Ft Tall Statue In Hyderabad Today

B R Ambedkar's grandson Prakash Ambedkar is invited as the sole chief guest at the event in Hyderabad where Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will unveil India's tallest Ambedkar statue.

File Photo: Construction work of the 125ft statue of B.R. Ambedkar, in Hyderabad, Monday, April 3, 2023. ( Image Source :PTI )

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will unveil the 125-ft tall statue of B R Ambedkar in Hyderabad on Friday to celebrate on a grand scale the birth anniversary of the architect of the Constitution. Flower petals would be showered from a helicopter on the statute paying floral tributes to Ambedkar. His grandson Prakash Ambedkar is invited as the sole chief guest at the event

According to news agency PTI, the Chief Minister recently held a meeting with his Ministers and officials to discuss the inauguration of the giant Ambedkar statue, the opening of the new Secretariat building complex and other matters.

It was decided that flower petals would be showered from a helicopter on the statute paying floral tributes to Ambedkar.

India’s Tallest Ambedkar Statue

The Chief Minister previously said that the statue to be inaugurated by him will be India’s tallest statue of Ambedkar. It has been built next to the State Secretariat, opposite to Buddha statue, and located beside the Telangana Martyrs Memorial. He said it will inspire people every day and motivate the entire State administration.

He told his Ministers and officials that the unveiling ceremony of the Ambedkar statue should be held on a grand scale with the entire Telangana and the country celebrating the occasion in a big manner.

It took at least two years to finalise technical and manufacturing measures after the decision was taken by KCR to erect the Ambedkar statue, PTI reported. The Telangana Chief Minister had praised the sculptor 98-year-old Ram Vanji Sutar for undertaking such a humongous effort.

 

A visual of the construction work of B.R. Ambedkar's 125-ft tall statue in Hyderabad, Monday, April 3, 2023. (PTI Photo)

The Telangana government will be inviting Sutar, a Padma Bhushan awardee, and honour him.

Arrangements are made to ensure that over 35,000 people from all 119 constituencies of the state attend the Ambedkar statue unveiling, with 300 people expected from each constituency. As many as 750 state-run Road Transport Corporation buses will be operated to bring the public to the event.

An official release said that the food will be arranged for people who come to the assembly complex within 50 km before reaching Hyderabad.

One lakh sweet packets, 1.50 lakh butter milk packets and equal number of water packets will be made available for the public, it mentioned.