Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his wax double on Wednesday, with museum Madame Tussauds announcing that new figures of him were taking up residence at museums in Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok.
Modi joins the likes of Britain’s David Cameron and Germany’s Angela Merkel who have Madame Tussauds wax figure doubles. Modi’s figure, dressed in a kurta in cream, took four months to make and cost 150,000 pounds ($215,835), the museum said in a statement.
Describing him as a “hugely important figure in world politics”, the museum said the Indian Prime Minister had given the museum’s team of artists and experts a sitting at his residence in New Delhi earlier this year.
“Prime Minister Modi is a hugely important figure in world politics, a position supported by his place in the top 10 of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year List 2015,” said museum spokesperson Kieran Lancini.
“His massive social media presence — he is currently the second most followed politician on twitter after President Obama — also confirms the intense interest the public have in him, a fact supported by the requests our guests have made for us to create his figure.
We are delighted to be including the Prime Minister’s figure in our attractions in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok,” he said.