A wax statue of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was unveiled here by party’s national president Rajnath Singh here on Sunday.Unveiling Modi’s wax statue before heading for the public rally at MMRDA grounds, Singh posed with the statue. Modi was present along with Singh, when the latter unveiled the statue.
Modi will be the second BJP politician after the former PM A.B. Vajpayee to be immortalized in wax at the Celebrity Wax Museum (CWM), lonavla, near Pune. “We had recently met Modi and taken his measurements for the statue,” CWM owner Subhash Kandalloor said.
Though Modi will be the second BJP entrant to the museum’s portals, the Congress already has a significant presence at the museum in the form of the statues of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and some others.