Gandhi Statue to Be Unveiled at Al Hurriyah Park in Cairo

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, Hardeep Singh Puri, India's Minister of State for Housing, Urban Affairs, Civil Aviation and Commerce and Industry will unveil the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, today Wednesday at Al Hurriyah Park in Cairo at 2:30 pm.

Puri will be accompanied by Major General Khaled Abdel-Aal, Governor of Cairo, and Rahul Kulshreshth, Ambassador of India in Cairo.

The statue of Mahatma Gandhi is made of bronze by Indian sculptor Ram Vanji Sutar.

Gandhi was known to be the leading politician and spiritual leader of India during India's independence movement, pioneering Satyagraha, resisting tyranny through mass civil disobedience, which led to India's independence and inspired many civil rights and freedom movements around the world.

It is worth mentioning that Gandhi founded what was known in the world of politics as "peaceful resistance" or philosophy of non-violence (Satyagraha.). It is a set of principles based on religious, political and economic foundations at the same time courage, truth and non-violence; it aims to defeat the occupier through full awareness of the profound danger and the formation of a force capable of confronting this danger nonviolence first and then violence if there is no other option.