Amit Shah unveils 12-foot CP charkha

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday unveiled a 12-foot-tall and 25-foot-long steel charkha and inaugurated a heritage Charkha Museum at Palika Bazar Park in Connaught Place on Sunday.

Undeterred by heavy downpour just before the programme was about the start, which partially washed out the arrangements, Mr Shah along with senior NDA government ministers Kalraj Mishra, Mahesh Sharma, Vijay Goel and Haribhai. P. Choudhary unveiled the 2.5-tonne charkha, an initiative to link it with tourism in the centenary year of Champaran satyagraha.

The charkha installed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is made of high-quality chromium nickel stainless steel and is corrosion resistant, non-magnetic and not hardenable by heat. KVIC chairman Mr Vinai Kumar Saxena said that PM Narendra Modi has hailed the initiative and in his special message said.

“As Mahatma Gandhi himself believed, the charkha is a symbol of our swaraj and self-reliance. The museum and the monument for the charkha in the national capital will be a proud tribute the charkha’s historic importance in our nation.”

Mr Saxena said that the charkha, like the memorial to unknown soldiers, is memorial to the unknown rural masses, who took to the demonstrated ways of self-reliance and dignity of labour following the call of the father of the nation.