West Bengal News | Kolkata’s Giant Messi Statue To Be Removed After Swaying Scare

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Focus [Music] From Hyderabad to Kolkata where it's much hyped 70-foot Messi statue was actually seen [Music] swinging in moderate winds that hit the city reveal structural deficiencies Authorities have conducted [Music] an inspection and have actually decided now to remove it very five months after it was installed in December of last year It [Music] was unveiled by football joint Messi virtually during the Goat Tour in Kolkata [Music] and since then due to two structural inconsistencies. It has now been removed.

[00:00:33]Let's get in Shreyasi Dey [music] joining us live from Kolkata. Shreyasi What Exactly Happened There? What exactly was the situation with regard to the statue when it was finally [music] removed?

[00:00:45]Well Gauri. The statue still remains there. It is going to be removed. That's a decision that the administration [music] has taken because it can be dangerous considering it was seen swinging in these moderate winds. That hit the city yesterday. And of course this is at a very crucial junction on the route to the airport here in Kolkata with a lot of you know homes around it so it can post danger to people passing in that four point crossing at Laketown where it is currently located but of course there was a massive fanfare when the statue was inaugurated here by Nana other than Lionel Messi when he was on the Goat tour to Kolkata it was of course erected by ah then Minister Sujit Bose who is now in ED custody and we are going to be seeing this statue being removed and it was something that the entire city was looking at when in this it was inaugurated in honour of Lionel Messi [Music] we had seen a lot of people come in from across the country to come and get a selfie with this particular statue it was in the headlines earlier but now in The headlines are for the wrong reasons that due to structural deficiencies it is likely to be moved away from this particular area in Kolkata.