Butparasti , idol worship, is a forbidden province, going by the tenets of Islam. It's material value merits application, at least in the public life, rather in publicly evaluating public entities, especially those credited with credentials of freedom fighters.

If you idolise, the whole focus gets restricted to the one idolised, interdicting focus on the ultimate reality. 

The concept of prohibition against idol worship, predicates the treatment of intermediate entities as subservient to the ultimate, thereby just a means in itself, rather than an end.

In the Hindu belief system, this is called Nimitt, that a representative medium that bears only a symbolic significance, rather than substantial.

A Ninitt in public life, be that a Gandhi or a Nehru or an Atal Bihar or a Modi or even Lalu, Nitish, Mulayam, Mamta or whatever, often get strayed in public reckoning, because we lose track of the above principle, forbidding idol worship or Nimitt treatment.

A human being, howsoever tall in its stature, must not be forgotten to be constituted by bones and flesh. Once that ordinariness of a Gandhi or a Nehru or anyone down to the present day players, is lost sight of, the evils of idol worship begin to overtake and misguided inferences keep blurring public opinion. 

That evil pervaded public reckoning of public figures, until the realisation, a belated one among the present crop, that all public figures are just ordinary mortals, one slightly superior or better than the other in one field but inferior in another, but can never be presumed to be above board on all counts.