[nickcarraway]

$740 Million USD

[Steely Tom]

This is the sort of things politicians do when left to their own devices.

[freedumb2003]

Good thing India has licked poverty and squalor and has extra money for artistic pursuits.

[LS]

What, not Gandhi?

[central_va]

It’s actually an ICBM silo. Don’t tell anyone.

[Larry Lucido]

But was he a white poet warlord?

[bgill]

Wait a few years when the next generation gets their panties in a wad and demand it be taken down.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I hope it will have more than adequate defenses, because Muslims will definitely want to destroy it.

[Wissa]

...expected to cost billions of rupees and has sparked criticism from environmental activists...

That's easy to take care of. Just stick some solar panels on it and they'll praise it.

[Rebelrage]

Stupid environmentalists, virtue signaling with their stupid windmills. The noise of the wind turbines would be unbearable the way they have them right next to the memorial, and the seagull kill would be huge.

[Rebelbase]

Why spoil the view with those windmills?

[Mad_as_heck]

Considering India’s pollution problems they aren’t fooling anyone with the windmills.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

He fought Muslim rulers. Good man. Put the statue up already.

[PghBaldy]

I love India, and her people, but they need to focus on building things like sewage plants instead of statues.

[trisham]

What a waste.

[Stosh]

Per the Wikipedia on this dude: “Shivaji’s contemporary, the poet Kavi Bhushan stated: Had not there been Shivaji, Kashi would have lost its culture, Mathura would have been turned into a mosque and all would have been circumcised.”

Methinks this statue may be a message to some of the bad actors in the neighborhood, particularly those to the immediate north and nearby west.