"In the coming months we are going to have a statue of Gandhiji alongside Nelson Mandela. I think it's a fantastic way to pay tribute to one of the greatest persons to have ever been born on this earth," UK's culture secretary Sajid Javid told reporters here.
He said that they were putting the statue in front of the House of Parliament in London.
"We are working with the charity that has been set up to help us with the project," Javid, whose department is taking care of the project, said.
The Gandhi statue will be the 11th statue to be erected in Parliament Square which already has memorials of international leaders like Mandela, Abraham Lincon and Winston Churchill.