PM Modi unveils Mahatma Gandhi’s bust in Hiroshima, site of world’s first nuclear attack
Hiroshima, May 20 (PTI) The Gandhian ideals of peace and harmony reverberate globally and give strength to millions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday as he unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi here in this Japanese city.
The location of the bust of Gandhi has been chosen as a mark of solidarity for peace and non-violence. The United States conducted the world’s first atomic attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing some 140,000 people.
Modi also spoke to reporters after unveiling the bust and said that even today the world gets scared when it hears the word Hiroshima.
