Saturday, 3 November 2007

From Ajay Popat, Manchester

I am REALLY CONCERNED at the news of both Tamil Nadu government and central government’s PLAN to destroy “Ram Setu” to make way for a canal project linking India and Sri Lanka.

Ram Setu is an ancient structure and is Indian heritage belonging to ALL the people of INDIA and not just Tamil Nadu’s government to break as they please. I request Indian government to immediately suspend this project till it is re-designed and re-aligned properly to address safety aspects incorporating detailed scientific, technical, strategic reviews with viable alternative plan by constituting a multi-disciplinary expert team to save our ancient structure.


Furthermore I request government of India for protection of this sacred ancient monumental heritage site of the nation and necessary measures to declare it one of the worlds ancient monumental heritage.

India has the longest coastline of 7500 km with the richest underwater cultural and archaeological repository and, according to Maritime expert representing India at UNESCO convention, Dr S. R. Rao SSCP, has violated all international norms and conventions for saving underwater cultural heritage, a mandatory for every maritime member to “list, preserve and protect all underwater cultural sites.

As a Hindu I have always believed in Lord Ram as incarnation of Lord Vishnu and most ideal person to follow (Purshotam Bhagwan Shri Ram). As Lohana, Raghuvansi, those belonging to the clan Raghuvansi of whom Shri Ram was the ideal king and after his son Lav the clan of Lohana started in Punjab, I see a clear link to Lord Ram as my predecessor and I can not accept an athesit CM of Tamil Nadu and Congress government (Atheist Ambika Soni) denying the existence of my predecessor. It is like asking if there is any pro of Shri Karunadhi’s and smt Soni’s ever had great, great grandparent as there is no proof of their existence since there was no camera invented . This is clearly hurting the sentiment of large number of Hindus around the world but in particularly of Lohanas who believe we are the descendant of Lord Ram.

Finally destroying the bridge may impact local people, animals and only benefit multinational companies who see this as an opportunity to make money. But we have to ask ourselves is it really worth disrupting animal habitat in the region as well as destroying an important part of world history and heritage for small gain as projected by this government? I request Indian Government to STOP DESTROYING INDIAN HERITAGE RAMSETU and DISMISS AMBIKA SONI AND TN CM, Mr KARUNANIDDHI FOR HURTING THE SENTIMENT HINDU WORLD WIDE BY DENYING EXISTENCE OF LORD RAM AND MOST SACRED TEXT OF RAMAYAN.

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