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The Indian government has condemned the theft of a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a community centre in Melbourne…

Victoria police are investigating the theft from the Australian Indian Community Centre in Rowville and have warned scr…

On Tuesday night, the spokesperson for India’s ministry of external affairs, Randhir Jaiswa, said the government had ra…

Sign up: AU Breaking News “We strongly condemn the vandalization and removal of the Mahatma Gandhi statue located at th…

“We have strongly raised the matter with Australian authorities and urged them to take immediate action to recover the …

” Vasan Srinivasan, chair of the Australian Indian Community Charitable Trust, which owns the centre, said the Indian g…

He described Gandhi as an “icon of India” who believed in “people power”.

There is only one in Victoria,” he said.

While Australia’s Indian diaspora has been singled out by anti-immigration rallies, Srinivasan said he did not believe …

The statue was subjected to an attempted beheading in 2021 on the same day the then prime minister Scott Morrison unvei…

Srinivasan said the statue had also been vandalised with anti-Gandhi and anti-Indian graffiti in 2023 and 2024, with th…

Statues of Gandhi have also been the subject of controversy overseas, with some activists pointing to Gandhi’s “well-do…

Gandhi, who died in 1948, is recognised as a key leader in India’s independence movement, renowned for his philosophy o…

Evan Mulholland, Victoria’s opposition spokesperson for multicultural affairs, expressed “deep support and solidarity” …

“Our multicultural communities should feel safe and respected in every suburb of this state,” he said.

A Victoria police spokesperson said they believed three people were involved in the statue’s theft.

“Officers were told the offenders used an angle grinder to cut the statue,” the spokesperson said.

Victoria’s multicultural affairs minister has been contacted for