RULING DMK AND OTHER DRAVIDIAN PARTIES WANT TO DEMOLISH RAMA SETHU TO FACILITATE LTTE BRIGAND BOATS, CHARGES SWAMI

By Walter Jayawardhana

Writing in the Organizer magazine India’s Janatha Party leader Subramanian Swami said the Dravidian movement which includes DMK, MDMK, PMK and DK support the demolition of Rama sethu –the bridge between Sri Lanka and India , which the Ramayanaya epic says was built by Hanuman , is to facilitate the illegal boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

“the demolition would facilitate the LTTE brigand boats to move quicker from Tuticorin to Chennai on the Palk Strait, and on international waters,” Swami charged in the article.

Swami says the Indian government could proceed with the Sethu Samudram Project without demolishing the bridge

Describing all reasons why the Dravidian parties of Tamil Nadu are agitating for the demolition of the bridge Swami said, “The Dravida Movement which includes DMK, MDMK, PMK, and DK parties, has turned it’s ire on Bhagwan Shri Ram, the King of Ayodhya, and want the Rama Sethu to be demolished because it is a symbol of “North Indian” domination. Also, the demolition would facilitate the LTTE brigand boats to move quicker from Tuticorin to Chennai on the Palk Strait, and on international waters. At present, the Rama Sethu stands in the way. Hence their vociferous support for the Sethu Samundram Ship Canal Project [SSCP]. Hence the project in the present form must resolutely opposed.”

While the Hindu scriptures have given vivid and moving description of the construction of the Rama Sethu, it’s existence has now been confirmed by two scientific sources, argued Swami. One source is photographs taken by NASA from space. Other source is India’s own research.

Swami further said, “The Dravid-ian Kazhagam leader, K. Veeramani, has recently threatened to burn the Ramayana in a public protest against “Aryan Supremacy”. Hence, his idiom is outdated. ‘Aryan’ incidentally is a word popularised by Adolf Hitler, which word has no equivalent in Sanskrit vocabulary. The closest is the word ‘arya’, which is no racial connotation. The Tamil equivalent of ‘arya’ is ‘aiya’. The linguistic root of the word is thus the same-meaning a cultured or noble person, and not a race.

”Veeramani’s earlier adulation of Ravana in his anti-Brahmin tirade had to come to an embarrassing end because he discovered that the Ravana was actually a Brahmin[‘Aryan’] scholar of the Sama Veda who had meditated in Kailash to get a boon.

”The Aryan-Dravidian racial divide theory, is a mischievous construct of the British Imperialists and their tutees like Romilla Thapar. Modern research and DNA analysis have now decisively debunked any such racial dichotomy in the Indian profile of ancestry. Time has come therefore to purge the theory from text books.”

”While the Hindu scriptures have given vivid and moving description of the construction of the Rama Sethu, it’s existence has now been confirmed by two scientific sources. In the first, the present configuration of the Rama Sethu has been photographed by US National Aeronautics and Space Agency [NASA] by their satellites, and colour photos of the same published in these columns earlier. These photos establish the Sethu’s existence as a chain of shoal stones. The Department of Earth Science, of the government of India have in a report to the President of India have stated that shoal stones placement make out that they were “deliberately placed there”. That is, as if it was constructed in the manner described in the Valmiki, Kamban, and Tulsidas, saints who authored the Ramayana Epic. NASA also establishes the age of the shoal stone formation as 1, 750,000 years ago. The bridge formation by placing these stones one by one, according to the Earth Science Department is not less than 9000 years. “

”Such independent corroboration therefore cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence and not worthy of notice as the DMK nominee in the Union Ministry of Shipping Shri T.R. Baalu has been saying. At the very minimum it requires a full inquiry as to whether or not the said Rama Sethu is a Hindu heritage site. Millions believe it to be so, and hence the government cannot take a narrow cynical view of such faith. “

Calling it a living miracle, Swami said , it should be protected by UNESCO as a World heritage site.