Stressing the need for world-class memorials that eventually become an identity of the city or country, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) boss Sharad Pawar said that the authorities should ignore the advice of those who say that the money put into building these monuments should be used elsewhere.

Speaking to the media after visiting Dadar's Indu Mills, the site where a memorial of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is being built, Pawar said, "There is no restriction on giving free advice in our country. We can take the good things and ignore the ones that are not useful." He further said that grand memorials were needed and there should be no cost-cutting if a good plan needed to be executed. However, 25 per cent of the memorial's work has already been completed.