{"id":22747,"date":"2025-11-13T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiannewsservice.in\/en\/?p=22747"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:14:40","slug":"bhilais-ankush-dewangan-creates-worlds-smallest-statue-of-pm-modi-cm-sai-praises-his-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiannewsservice.in\/en\/bhilais-ankush-dewangan-creates-worlds-smallest-statue-of-pm-modi-cm-sai-praises-his-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhilai\u2019s Ankush Dewangan Creates World\u2019s Smallest Statue of PM Modi, CM Sai Praises His Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raipur, November 13<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five-year-old Ankush Dewangan from Bhilai astonished everyone with his extraordinary micro-art during the &#8216;Jandarshan&#8217; programme, where he presented Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai with a framed marble sculpture of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, believed to be the world\u2019s smallest statue. The frame also features a miniature replica of the newly constructed Shri Ramlala Temple in Ayodhya. The artwork, equipped with a microscopic lens, reveals even the Prime Minister\u2019s smile and hair strands when viewed closely.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Shri Sai admired the creation, calling it \u201ca symbol of devotion and patience,\u201d and praised Dewangan for beautifully expressing his reverence for the Prime Minister through art. Chief Minister Shri Sai proposed organizing a state-level exhibition of Dewangan\u2019s work, affirming that encouraging such artists is the government\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>An Administrative Assistant at Bhilai Steel Plant, Dewangan has been crafting miniatures since childhood. It took him two months to carve the half-centimetre-tall statue, working by day and sculpting by night. \u201cModi ji fulfilled the dream of building the Ram Temple, so I placed both in one frame,\u201d he said. The Chief Minister has decided to place the artwork in his office, while Dewangan now plans to create the world\u2019s smallest replica of the Ram Setu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raipur, November 13 Fifty-five-year-old Ankush Dewangan from Bhilai astonished everyone with his extraordinary micro-art during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cg","category-others"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bhilai\u2019s Ankush Dewangan Creates World\u2019s Smallest Statue of PM Modi, CM Sai Praises His Art - Asian News Service | English Language | Latest News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asiannewsservice.in\/en\/bhilais-ankush-dewangan-creates-worlds-smallest-statue-of-pm-modi-cm-sai-praises-his-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bhilai\u2019s Ankush Dewangan Creates World\u2019s Smallest Statue of PM Modi, CM Sai Praises His Art - 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