Ram Sethu protests continue

INDIA: The agitation of Hindus against the destruction of Ram Sethu has reached at its peak. As part of the countrywide agitations, dharnas, demonstrations, rallies, observing fasts, presenting memorandums and conducting signature campaigns by different organisations, a massive demonstration was staged at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to exert pressure on the UPA Government.

Addressing the agitators, senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi said there would have been no need of entering into any nuclear agreement with the US if our government had made efforts to preserve our own reserves of thorium.

He made it clear that the plan of Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project had been revived during the NDA regime but it never supported the destruction of Ram Sethu.

He alleged that the Union Shipping Minister T.R. Balu is now conspiring to blast the Sethu by dynamite.

“If it happens it would be the most unfortunate decision for the country and the environment. We have sought an appointment from the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to stop the government from taking this disastrous step,” he said and added that the movement for the protection of Ram Sethu is the fight to save the soul of the country.

VHP general secretary Dr Pravin Togadia warned the government to restrain from taking such a suicidal step otherwise the every street of the country will witness massive agitations.

“If the government does not change the route of the Sethusamudaram Project lakhs of people would demonstrate at Parliament in September.”

A high-level delegation of 26 BJP Mahila Morcha activists under the leadership of national president Smt Kiran Maheshwari, MP, presented a memorandum supported by one crore signatures to President Smt. Pratibha Patil in New Delhi and requested her to direct the government to change the route of the Sethusamudram Project to save the symbol of Indian culture and identity-Ram Sethu.

Agencies