A Hindu politician’s plan to build the world’s tallest statue of Christ has run into trouble after some radicals raised objections.

Doddalahalli Kempegowda Shivakumar, popularly known as D K Shivakumar and a leader of the opposition Congress party in Karnataka state, has pledged to build the 114-foot-tall Jesus statue at Harobele in Ramanagara, some 80 km south of the state capital of Bengaluru. On December 27, a day after Shivakumar, a former minister and currently a legislator, laid the foundation stone for the statue, the Karnataka government said it would review all land allotments made during the time of the previous government, a coalition of the Congress and a regional party.

The pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party now heads the state’s current coalition government

The proposed ‘tallest’ statue of Jesus Christ is threatening to snowball into the tallest controversy yet, reports the Bangalore Mirror daily.

Karnataka Law Minister J C Madhuswamy said that there was a need to review the government land allotments during the time of the previous government. The proposed project is coming up on a 10-acre land in the backdrop of Kapali Betta (mountain). The Congress leader has paid the money to the land allotted by the previous government and is funding the project too.