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Detailed explanation-1: -Jaishankar has unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Paraguay and visited the historic Casa de la Independencia from where the South American country’s Independence movement started more than two centuries ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -Foreign Minister S Jaishankar unveiled the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the UN Headquarters in New York yesterday. The Mahatma Gandhi statue installed at UN headquarters is a gift by India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mr. Jaishankar, who is on his first-ever official visit to South America aimed at boosting overall bilateral ties with the region, is also the first Indian Foreign Minister to visit Paraguay, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mahatma Gandhi, byname of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India-died January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India.

Detailed explanation-5: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Banaras Hindu University in 1916. On 4 February 1916, Gandhiji’s made his first public appearance after returning from South Africa in BHU. He addressed the audience in BHU, mostly consisting of impressionable youths, princes, bedecked and bejeweled, etc.