Only he was slapped with an FIR filed at Kevadiya police station. While most quarantined minds are debating whether funds have been allocated correctly, the ad poster thought they'd stumbled upon quite a clever idea. News of the lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for medical staff and the lack of hospital beds and ventilators have been going around for a while now. Preparedness against the pandemic in India has been oft questioned and so has the PM Cares fund. Over the past few months, there have been calls for India to dip into the PM Cares fund and the PM's National Relief Fund for the resources required for medical equipment and infrastructure to fight coronavirus. The ad is a call to sell the statue for funds that could go towards India's COVID-19 funding. SEE ALSO: Google Shows Change In India's Mobility Trends Due To The COVID-19 PandemicĪ very ambitious seller on OLX on Saturday posted an ad featuring the Statue of Unity, Sardar Vallabhai Patel's memorial.

An FIR lodged at Kevadiya district police station followed. The seller stated that he needs to sell the statue for 30,000 crores. The 182 meters tall structure cost the government a pretty penny and someone in Gujarat, an OLX user to be precise, thought the statue could be of good use for COVID-19 funding needed to cover medical expenses at hospitals. An unknown person in Gujarat put up the Statue of Unity, the World's tallest statue, a monument inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in 2018 up for sale on OLX.

Statue of unity controversy