London [Images] Mayor Ken Livingstone wants to put up a statue of Mahatma Gandhi [Images] in the city.
Livingstone, who is scheduled to visit India in November, hopes to follow up the building of a 9-ft bronze statue of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square with a similar tribute to Gandhi in a nearby location.
According to Livingstone, the statue will be a huge tourist attraction and boost the United Kingdom's links with India.
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