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Gandhi, as in Mohandas Gandhi, not Indira, who, BTW was neither his daughter nor relative, was not the essential piece of Indian independence as movie makers like to make it out to be. The British Empire was broke, by the start of WWII.
So if his iconic status comes down as a result of calling South African blacks, the N-word, well ... it's an indirect way of actually minimizing his so-called legacy which really wasn't much to begin with.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53025407
A petition to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester has received nearly 5,000 signatures.
The online petition accuses the Indian independence campaigner of being "a fascist, racist and sexual predator".
Last year, students from Manchester called for a similar statue of Gandhi to be removed because of his "well-documented anti-black racism".