An unidentified man kept the world’s tallest statue – the Statue of Unity (SoU) - for sale on the online marketplace OLX for £3 billion. The post was deleted by the website within hours but screenshots of the sale went viral. The mischief monger seemed to be taking pot-shots at the government for spending millions of pound for building SoU instead of using the money on hospitals and healthcare.
The incident came to light last week when screenshots of SoU’s photo along accompanying a text reading ‘Emergency! Selling Statue of Unity because of urgent money required for hospitals and healthcare equipment’ went viral. SoU authorities later filed a complaint against the unidentified person. The complaint stated that the miscreant deliberately insulted feelings of the public by trying to put the statue on sale. A police official in Kevadia police station where the complaint has been filed, said that they will track down the person who may have made the post from his mobile or computer.
The 182-metre-tall statue of India’s former union home minister Sardar Patel has caught the fascination of tourists since its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018. In November last year, SoU surpassed the USA’s Statue of Liberty in terms of daily footfall. The statue has been closed indefinitely for public due to coronavirus pandemic.
