Just two days before Gandhi Jayanti celebrations, Mahatma Gandhi’s statue at Tavistock Square in London was vandalised. The plinth of the bronze statue was found covered with offensive anti-India graffiti. The incident has drawn sharp condemnation from the High Commission of India, which described the act as shameful and an attack on the ideals of peace and non-violence. London police have initiated an investigation into the matter.
The statue has been a focal point of Gandhi Jayanti commemorations, where each year tributes are offered on October 2. Over the years, Tavistock Square has earned recognition as London’s peace park with a cherry tree planted for the victims of Hiroshima, a field maple commemorating the United Nations’ International Year of Peace in 1986.
