The High Commission of India in London has condemned the vandalism of an iconic statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Tavistock Square in London , near a university campus.

Officials from India outrightly labelled this as a “violent attack on the idea of nonviolence,” given Gandhi’s nonviolent path of resistance during the British colonial era.

As if the act of desecrating the late Indian leader’s statue was already an outrageous move, what particularly troubled the HCI in London was that the incident took place merely days before October 2, aka ‘Gandhi Jayanti’ or the birth anniversary of the ‘Father of the Nation.’ On top of that, the United Nations has even designated the date as the International Day of Non-Violence.

High Commission of India in London condemns Gandhi statue vandalism

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