Chennai Statue Eye Sore!

Chennai can be reasonably proud of its statues in the marina, it is supposed to have inspired the late NTR to do a similar venture in the tank bund at Hyderabad. But the new age artists who seem to manage Chennai corporation and their many 'novel' ventures beat me completely!
A case in point is this eyesore you cannot miss if you were to pass by the Spur Tank Road signal in Chetpet. It is cast in cement, doesn't look like anything and sits in the centre of the road with no reason at all. Why did this eyesore come up, in who's honour, for what purpose, who was the Mahatma at the corporation that decided this master piece (he must be some one related to the other eyesore monger who decided to place plastic deer and rabbits in the midst of the highly dusted green median that runs in Poonamallee High Road and Nungambakkam High Road). Some suggest the resemblance to the other occupant of the signal, the traffic police man, but, with the traffic police men rapidly changing to look smarter and there are not many shapeless characters any longer.

Strangely there is no plaque to celebrate its appearance, it doesn't seem to have been donated by a less charitable MNC nor does it look like a joke on Chennai-ites, like the other major Corporation bequest, the fanciful tiles for the entrance of all the public urinals.

The only explanation I could think was that someone high in power didn't like the people of Spur Tank Road and decided that this is their way of getting back at the area. The new attempted meneken piss on the cathedral road is far less an eyesore compared to this.