The Prime Minister announced that the statue of Edwin Lutyens, the British architect of Rashtrapati Bhavan, will be replaced by one of C. Rajagopalachari. Rajaji, born on 10 December 1878 in Salem, was the first and last Indian Governor-General of independent India. He led the Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha in 1930, framed the C.R. Formula in 1944 and was among the first Bharat Ratna recipients in 1954.