Hindu Temple Will Deify Indira Gandhi
Admirers of assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi plan to deify her by building a temple to her in southern India.
A 6-foot bronze statue of Gandhi will be installed in the Hindu temple, expected to be completed next month, the Hindustan Times reported.
Gandhi was slain Oct. 31, 1984 by two Sikh bodyguards. Hundreds of trusts and projects have been started in her memory by the government and private groups.
The temple, the first of its kind to a modern leader, is being built in the coastal town of Rajamundry in Andhra Pradesh state. It will have portraits of Mahatama Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Rani Laxmibai, a famous 18th-Century Indian woman warrior.
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