PM Modi to unveil 216-foot statue of saint Ramanujacharya in Hyderabad
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a 216-foot statue of Ramanujacharya in a sitting position in Hyderabad on February 5, 2022, to celebrate the 1,000th birth anniversary of the saint.
Ramanujacharya was a 11th century saint and a revolutionary social reformer.
The statue will be called as the ‘Statue of Equality’.
It is located in a 45-acre complex at Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad in Telangana.
The project is built at a cost of Rs. 1,000-crore, which was funded entirely by donations from devotees globally.
President Ram Nath Kovind will unveil the inner chamber of the statue of Ramanujacharya on February 13, 2022.
The Statue of Equality is the world’s second-tallest statue in a sitting position. The Buddha statue in Thailand is considered as the world’s tallest statue in a sitting pose.