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<b>UPA ‘atonement’: Affidavits withdrawn, review promised, 2 ASI officials suspended </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Earlier, in the court, acknowledging “the wide-ranging public sentiment” to the “decision of the Central Government to proceed with the construction of the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal,” Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told the bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan: “The Central Government, without any reservations, in a spirit of inclusiveness and high democratic tradition, to consider a different point of view, withdraws the present affidavit, to re-examine the entire matter.”

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Meanwhile,<b> officials claimed that the objectionable lines in the affidavit had been deleted by the Culture Ministry and the ASI was instructed to carry out the necessary corrections before filing it in the court. While some of the corrections were carried out, the controversial lines remained: </b>“contents of the Valmiki Ramayana, the Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas and other mythological texts, which admittedly form an important part of ancient Indian literature...cannot be said to be historical record to incontrovertibly prove the existence of the characters, or the occurrence of the events, depicted therein.”

<b>Bakshi is said to be the officer responsible for carrying out the corrections while Chandrasekhar was coordinating with the Ministry of Culture and office of the Additional Solicitor General in the exercise of filing this affidavit.</b> The Director General, ASI was yesterday asked to conduct an inquiry to find out how and where the lapse had occurred.

<b>The DG herself has not been spared either with Culture Secretary Badal K Das asking her to furnish a “personal explanation” in the matter. Vaishya has been asked to explain her role and what she had done to ensure that the corrections were carried out, </b>the sources said. Culture Minister Ambika Soni, who returned from Japan this evening, was briefed on the issue by Ministry officials. She was unavailable for comment
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Now Ambika Soni ministry is making story. Who wrote this junk in first place, how dare it even reached to minister? Why Soni took no action against people who came up with first draft.
Think if any Babu comeup with line like Mohamad was womanizer or Jesus mother was messing around, do you think minster will just cancel those line. Ofcourse not.