05-22-2007, 06:39 PM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.rediff.com///news/2007/may/22ram.htm]Ram Sethu is Chinese Heritage Monument: Swamy[/URL]
Swamy challenges Baalu to debate on Ram Setu issue
PTI | May 22, 2007 | 16:11 IST
Challenging Union Shipping Minister T R Baalu to a debate on the Ram Setu issue, Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday demanded the issue of a White Paper by the Centre on surveys and other matters pertaining to the multi-crore Sethusamudaram Canal Project.
"Let him (Baalu) come out with a white paper on surveys undertaken," Swamy demanded at a press conference in Chennai, and said he would seek details under the Right to Information Act.
Swamy said he would not hesitate to lodge a complaint under the IPC if Baalu continued his constant remarks about Ram Setu 'that it is imaginary.'
The Janata Party chief claimed that even the Earth Science Department had concluded that 'it was not a natural deposit, but had been placed there.'
He said he was ready to enter into a public debate with Baalu on the issue. Swamy also wanted to know why the alternate route-four, which, according to him, was more feasible, was not being considered instead of route-six in which path the monument stood.
<b>Stating that he was going to internationalise the issue,</b> Swamy said the <b>Sri Lankan government had, in reply to his letter, said it would take up the matter soon with India about Ram Setu being a heritage monument of the island nation</b>.
Sure! Ravana strolled along that, dragging Seeta. And Sirmavo Soorpanaka Bandaravananaike walked along that to go see Rama, which is what made much of the Sethu go down 10 feet. Kumbakarna snored there on his beachmat. <!--emo&:whistle--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='whistle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>He said he would also be writing to the Chinese president about it being associated with Chinese cultural heritage.</b>Â <!--emo&:guitar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guitar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='guitar.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(That's because it is actually called "MAO Sethu". Mao se Dung walked along this on the Long March, and it is an extension of the Great Wall of China. )
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If it is called "Adam's Bridge" I wonder if it is not also Israeli Heritage. Maybe the term "Ram Sethu" comes from "Ramon Steinbrenner"? Just curious.
It would be good to have the People's Sethu Liberation Navy and the Israeli Navy "protecting" the Palk Strait for Admiral Swamy and the Ram (madhav) Sethu Sena, from the evil Indian Navy, no?
It's always good to get see Hindu "netas" get "phoren collaborashun" to intervene in Indian internal squabbles. Worked so beautifully since 1495, and even better since 1600.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.rediff.com///news/2007/may/22ram.htm]Ram Sethu is Chinese Heritage Monument: Swamy[/URL]
Swamy challenges Baalu to debate on Ram Setu issue
PTI | May 22, 2007 | 16:11 IST
Challenging Union Shipping Minister T R Baalu to a debate on the Ram Setu issue, Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday demanded the issue of a White Paper by the Centre on surveys and other matters pertaining to the multi-crore Sethusamudaram Canal Project.
"Let him (Baalu) come out with a white paper on surveys undertaken," Swamy demanded at a press conference in Chennai, and said he would seek details under the Right to Information Act.
Swamy said he would not hesitate to lodge a complaint under the IPC if Baalu continued his constant remarks about Ram Setu 'that it is imaginary.'
The Janata Party chief claimed that even the Earth Science Department had concluded that 'it was not a natural deposit, but had been placed there.'
He said he was ready to enter into a public debate with Baalu on the issue. Swamy also wanted to know why the alternate route-four, which, according to him, was more feasible, was not being considered instead of route-six in which path the monument stood.
<b>Stating that he was going to internationalise the issue,</b> Swamy said the <b>Sri Lankan government had, in reply to his letter, said it would take up the matter soon with India about Ram Setu being a heritage monument of the island nation</b>.
Sure! Ravana strolled along that, dragging Seeta. And Sirmavo Soorpanaka Bandaravananaike walked along that to go see Rama, which is what made much of the Sethu go down 10 feet. Kumbakarna snored there on his beachmat. <!--emo&:whistle--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='whistle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>He said he would also be writing to the Chinese president about it being associated with Chinese cultural heritage.</b>Â <!--emo&:guitar--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guitar.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='guitar.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(That's because it is actually called "MAO Sethu". Mao se Dung walked along this on the Long March, and it is an extension of the Great Wall of China. )
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If it is called "Adam's Bridge" I wonder if it is not also Israeli Heritage. Maybe the term "Ram Sethu" comes from "Ramon Steinbrenner"? Just curious.
It would be good to have the People's Sethu Liberation Navy and the Israeli Navy "protecting" the Palk Strait for Admiral Swamy and the Ram (madhav) Sethu Sena, from the evil Indian Navy, no?
It's always good to get see Hindu "netas" get "phoren collaborashun" to intervene in Indian internal squabbles. Worked so beautifully since 1495, and even better since 1600.