Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament of India

Designed by Ram V. Sutar, it was inaugurated in 1993, and has become iconic as a site for protest by members of the Indian Parliament.

[4][5] In 1981, it was decided to proceed with a design of Gandhi in a meditative posture to be installed at the canopy near the India Gate.

[7] The matter was raised in the Parliament by George Fernandes who accused the government of having left Gandhi "in the middle of the road".

[8] The statue was subsequently donated to the Parliament by the Ministry of Urban Development and was unveiled by President Shankar Dayal Sharma on Gandhi Jayanti, 1993.

[19] After the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a bulletin barring MPs from using the premises of the parliament for holding any demonstrations or protests or religious ceremonies in 2022, Mahua Moitra, MP of the opposition Trinamool Congress, proposed that the statue itself be removed from the precincts of the Parliament House.