CHENNAI: The AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Wednesday jumped into the Ram Sethu political war leading demonstrations across Tamil Nadu against the controversial remarks of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, as she joined the BJP in demanding sacking of DMK ministers in the Centre.
The anti-Ram remarks continued to evoke strong reactions with BJP president Rajnath Singh wanting the UPA to disassociate itself from the UPA and sack the DMK ministers if Karunanidhi does not withdraw them.
Demanding the dismissal of the Karunanidhi government for hurting the sentiments on Hindus, the former chief minister, who had been camping at her Kodanadu estate in Nilgiris district for the past one week, led the demonstration at Udhagamandalam.
The Centre should dismiss the DMK government as it has "violated the Constitution by hurting the sentiments of Hindus," and remove DMK ministers from the Union Cabinet, she added.
AIADMK workers also staged demonstrations in Pondicherry and in New Delhi as its leaders stressed it was not against the Sethusamudram project and that its opposition was towards the alignment.
In Jalandhar, Congress leader M S Bitta asked people to burn effigies of Karunanidhi on the day of Dussehra.
"Statements of Karunanidhi against Lord Ram and the Ram Setu are attempts to spread religious terrorism,", he told reporters.
RE:We want Ram Rajya NOT Rome Rajya !!
by Chola King on Sep 27, 2007 12:21 AM Permalink
Ram defines our nation, our ancestry, our civilisation. Denying Ram is denying India. Gandhi stood firmly for Ram Rajya. He died with Ram's name on his lips. His samadhi in Delhi has only one inscription etched on it, He Ram. But Hindus are asked to provide proof of Rama's birthplace and the data of his bridge's construction plans.
Now they asked for proof of his existence. Next they may ask -- with this kind of Parliament it is quite possible -- to provide proof of who gave Bharat her name. Where are the records? And the ASI's poor director will file an affidavit: We do not have any 'scientifically' ascertainable records, only mythologies say this land's name is Bharat. Hence the name can be changed to any Nehru-Gandhi Clanistan, which will have proof authenticated by the New Delhi Municipal Corporation!
Mythology. The whole construct is a British anthropological revenge on us. We had a different tradition of recording events and writing history. The British and their cohorts taught that all that was mythology, a myth, and only the Western Christian world's methods are 'scientific'. Hence we adopted their standards, their calendar, their ways to greet the guests, their worldview became ours, and we discarded everything that we cherished, adopted their attire and weird uniforms (see our learned advocates sweating in black but still not complaining) to look modern and progressive.
Hence questioning Ram and Sita, humiliating ochre-robed sanyasins, converting ancient
