Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, in an evident bid of scoring over Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has said that the proposed state assembly building at Amaravati will be taller than the Statue of Unity.
The new assembly building has been planned to have three floors and a tower spiralling 250 metres into the sky, 68 metres over and above the Sardar Patel statue that was inaugurated last month by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The chief minister said that the design of the structure would be the tallest in the country. The blueprint will be submitted to the state government by UK-based architects Norma Fosters.
A sense of competition has started off among the state on building statues. Maharashtra is building a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial off the Mumbai coast and Uttar Pradesh has announced that it will build a Lord Ram statue.The Karnataka government is also keen on building a statue of river Cauvery, which will be 125 metre tall.
