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A gift from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee dedicated the memorial at the Indian Embassy on September 16, 2000 during a state visit of . It pictures Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) in ascetic garb, in reference to his 1930 march against a salt tax in India. Gautam Pal, a sculptor in Kolkata, designed the statue. Behind it are three slabs of Karnataka red granite with inscriptions honoring Gandhi's memory.
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