09-17-2007, 12:46 AM
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16 Sep 2007, 2040 hrs IST
KOCHI: The VHP on Sunday said it will take legal advice on whether to launch prosecution proceedings against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on the Ram Setu issue.
Reacting to Karunanidhi's statement that Ram Setu was "not man-made and Lord Ram was an imaginary character," VHP Secretary General, Praveen Togadia said Karunanidhi during his earlier innings <b>as Chief Minister in 1972, when he held the additional charge of PWD Minister, had in a foreword in the Ramanathapuram district gazette, accepted existence of the Ram Setu bridge</b>.
<b>"If he has gone back on the public document, he can be prosecuted," </b>Togadia told reporters here adding VHP will take legal advice in this regard.
<b>Coins, which are 1000-years-old making a mention about the Ram Setu, are available in Tamil, adding the Asiatic Society of Bengal, a well-respected body, also mentions about Ram Setu, he told reporters earlier</b>.Â
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16 Sep 2007, 2040 hrs IST
KOCHI: The VHP on Sunday said it will take legal advice on whether to launch prosecution proceedings against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on the Ram Setu issue.
Reacting to Karunanidhi's statement that Ram Setu was "not man-made and Lord Ram was an imaginary character," VHP Secretary General, Praveen Togadia said Karunanidhi during his earlier innings <b>as Chief Minister in 1972, when he held the additional charge of PWD Minister, had in a foreword in the Ramanathapuram district gazette, accepted existence of the Ram Setu bridge</b>.
<b>"If he has gone back on the public document, he can be prosecuted," </b>Togadia told reporters here adding VHP will take legal advice in this regard.
<b>Coins, which are 1000-years-old making a mention about the Ram Setu, are available in Tamil, adding the Asiatic Society of Bengal, a well-respected body, also mentions about Ram Setu, he told reporters earlier</b>.Â
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