PM Modi Unveils Gandhi Statue in Hiroshima with Message of Peace

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Japan to attend the G7 summit, inaugurated a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Hiroshima on Saturday. Sharing a picture from the event on Twitter, PM Modi wrote in Japanese, “Unveiled Mahatma Gandhi’s bust in Hiroshima. This bust in Hiroshima gives a very important message. The Gandhian ideals of peace and harmony reverberate globally and give strength to millions.” Speaking to reporters after unveiling the bust of Mahatma Gandhi, PM Modi said that even today the world gets frightened when they listen to the word ‘Hiroshima’, referring to the nuclear attack by the US during the Second World War which killed nearly 140,000 people.

“It is a great moment for me to know that the Bodhi tree that I gifted to the Japanese PM has been planted here in Hiroshima so that people can understand the importance of peace when they come here. I pay my respect to Mahatma Gandhi,” PM Modi added.

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in human history, which killed nearly 140,000 people and caused unimaginable loss of property. Three days later, on August 9, another nuclear bomb hit the city of Nagasaki, killing more than 75,000 people.