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Finally, Bhagat Singh statue unveiled in Parliament House
WSN Network

NEW DELHI: Seventy-nine years after Bhagat Singh, along with fellow-revolutionary, threw a bomb on the floor of the Legislative Assembly "to make the deaf hear", India finally  unveiled the great martyr's a statue in the same building, Parliament House complex, on Friday. But within hours, sections of the media spoiled the feel-good factor by advocating that the martyr should have been shown with a hat instead of a turban. 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani joined the President to offer floral tributes at the 18-foot bronze statue of the revolutionary. 

The installation of the statue was preceded by a tussle between the CPI(M) and Union Minister of State M S Gill for funding the project. The cost for the statue was borne by the Lok Sabha Secretariat even though the Punjab Government had agreed to bear the expenses. 

A few kin of the martyr said the statue should instead have been with a hat as the martyr was "universally known by his attire with a European hat". Among those who led this line of thought was Jagmohan Singh, a nephew of the martyr.

20 August, 2008
 

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