A 14-feet statue of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made entirely from scrap material, is to be installed in Bengaluru, India soon, according to the ANI news agency. The statue, unveiled this week, was built by a father-son duo hailing from Tenali in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. They run the ‘Surya Silpa Sala’, an artists’ workshop in the district.
“10-15 artisans worked for almost two months to complete this statue,” the news agency quoted Venkateswara Rao, the father as saying. According to the artist, it was a local BJP corporator, Mohan Raju, who had approached Rao with the request to construct the statue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to a report by Livemint, artisan Rao used a variety of waste materials – including discarded automobile parts, metal chains, cogs, wheels, rods, nuts, bolts, sheets, and other broken unusable metal pieces to build the Prime Minister’s statue. It took around two tonnes of scrap materials, on average, to build the 14-feet-tall statue, according to the report.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com