Bengaluru: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will unveil the newly built statues of Jagajyoti Basaveshwara and Nadaprabhu Kempegowda in front of Vidhana Soudha on Mar. 24.

The State Government is racing against time to unveil  the two statues  even before the model code of conduct, that comes into force soon after the Election Commission announces the assembly polls schedule, which may happen in the last week of this month.The ruling BJP plans to get political mileage with the unveiling of the statues of the two great personalities of two dominant communities of the State, Lingayat and Vokkaliga.