Rama Setu -2

[Bodhi]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Supreme Court today fixed April 15 to hear the petition against the Sethusamudram project, asking the parties opposing it to file their reply to the fresh affidavit filed by the Centre.

A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said that on April 15 it will further decide the date for further hearing on the matter. 
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1.5 months more. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Five date extensions in seven months.

Since the dredging is stopped for several months now, and can not resume during the monsoon season which will set-in in May. Dredging can only practically start from November'08, ASSUMING the stay is vacated, ASSUMING dredger ships are available for lease, and assuming UPA lasts till then (total chances of all of these seem bleek).

Which means all the dredging the fools did is undone by the nature by then.

Let us hope the UPA govt is removed from power and Baalu-waalu are disposed off in the Indian Ocean by then.

Recover the whole money wasted from the fools, and declare Ram Setu a heritage.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Chief petitioner Subramanian Swamy said he plans to inform the court of his first reactions and ask the bench to dismiss the affidavit because it does not answer the court’s questions.

Before the case was transferred to the Supreme Court, the Madras high court had asked the government two questions about the project: Why was this channel alignment chosen among six alternatives? And has the ministry of culture conducted any research on the bridge’s cultural significance?

The Supreme Court upheld these questions when the case was transferred from the high court. Now, one withdrawn affidavit, four date extensions and seven months later, the government has still not responded, Swamy said. “The department of shipping has filed it when the Union government should have done that. It explains why this route was chosen in the context of the environment. But, when I raised that question (of alignment), I was looking for answers about its economics and national security implications,” he said. “They don’t even address the second question.”

Meanwhile, “we are preparing for a massive andolan (movement) if anyone attacks the Ram Sethu,” said VHP president, Ashok Singhal. “They have declared a war on Hindus and we will not stand by.”

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