Northumberland, Feb. 23 -- Matt Ridley, great-grandson of Edwin Lutyens, expressed his sadness on Monday over the removal of Lutyens' bust from Rashtrapati Bhavan, which was replaced by a bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.

Riddley, who is the great-grandson of Edwin Lutyens, the architect of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, said in a post on X, "Sad to read that the bust of Lutyens (my great-grandfather) is to be removed from the presidential palace he designed in Delhi. Here I am with it last year. I wondered at the time why his name had been removed from the plinth."

His remarks come as President Droupadi Murmu on Monday unveiled a bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the first and only Indian Governor General of independent India, at Rashtr...