Shravan Shuddha Dashami
Chicago (USA): "The recommendation by the Supreme Court of India to find alternative alignment in the proceedings related to the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project and order to set up an Expert Committee to consider this alternate project is a defeat of Dravida Munnetra Kazagam, led by Karunanidhi and his supporters including Sonia Gandhi.
It is thus an indication of the fact that the Hindu revival is on hand," said Dr Subramanian Swamy in a public meeting held in his honor at the Hindu Temple, Lemont.Rehashing the events leading to the decision of Supreme Court, Dr. Swamy, who was championing the cause of saving Ramasethu from thezealous opponents who were bent upon destroying one of the holiest sites of Hindu Dharma, urged the Virat Hindu Society to come out of its slumber, throw away the shackles tying them to memories of a millennia of oppression, and centuries of wrong education and misrepresentation of Hindu history and traditions by constantly denigrating our culture and belittling the Hindu literature and scriptures.
He pleaded with the leaders and the people alike to change their mindset, which was essentially developed with the environments of fear, wrong education and misrepresentations. He reminded Hindus to unite and save their ancient heritage, culture and literature, rather the very upcoming generations from becoming victims of falsehood, fear and inducements. The only answer is self-awareness, self-respect and will to resist temptations and make right choices. He urged to discern right issues and make right decisions about the political choices.
Therefore he said it is very important for Hindus to realize the importance of building a strong political platform and exercise their voting power as a block on principles rather than parties. The Rama Sethu incident, he felt would turn out to be the catalyst to achieve success in many more issues of importance to Hindu society.
He suggested in the event of indecision or confusion "you should seek the counsel of Hindu Acharya Sabha, which is spearheading the cause of Hindu Unity to ensure that democracy, secularism and harmony will continue to flourish in our country. In order to meet these objectives however, he emphasized that the Hindus must change their mindset of defeatism. "You were told in our history books and by our intellectual community nurtured with the pseudo secular studies and twisted history written by British imperialists and their cronies that India was invaded, Hindus were beaten and vanquished, but the truth is otherwise.
Check up the history of Iran, Iraq, Egypt and even Indonesia. You will see that within a generation these countries were subjugated and became 100 percent Islamic, or Christian if you take Europe or South America. But even after 800 years of Islamic rule and nearly two hundred years of British rule, Bharat remains over 80% Hindu.
"If only you are united, you will have political, economic and social dominance and in keeping with the tradition of over 5000 years continue to live as a multi-cultural and religious community at large," he said with conviction.One other issue the Ramsethu controversy clearly demonstrated was that of the historicity of events of Ramayana.
He emphasized that Ramayana is Itihasa, i.e. History. The whole incident was witnessed by Valmiki,who wrote authoritatively about the construction, people and the battle. Valmiki was born in the area of present Andhra Pradesh and came to Rameshwaram to witness the breathtaking events leading to the building of the Sethu, crossing of the channel and vanquishing of Ravana for release of Sita, by Rama and his army of aboriginal tribes.
Therefore the Site is a man made bridge. According to Supreme Court case laws, any object however trivial if regarded as sacred by any class of persons would be protected under section 295 of Indian Penal Code. He sited the incident of Hazaratbal Mosque, Kashmir and a masjid near Calcutta Airport, protected from intrusions.
Dr Swamy unequivocally asserted that not on religious grounds, but also on the issues of national security including terrorism, Piracy and armed robbery, the projects has any defensible grounds of justification. Studies also revealed adverse impact on environment, ecology and if one has to give serious thought to one the most import ingredients to produce energy, the country would lose most precious resource by erosion and loss of Thorium Monazite Sands, abundantly available around the Sethu. According to Dr Kalyanaraman, who had spoken earlier, India could loss energy equivalent to 389 years of power. He cautioned about yet another factor ignored by the proponents of the project, i.e. meteorological factors, such as Cyclonic storms.
The world has experienced a Tsunami recently ones, and the possibility of its repeating is very much on the horizon. Historically the Rama Sethu has acted as a buffer against any serious threat and if it is destroyed there is a possibility of more serious occurrence of destruction.Dr Swamy first clearly elucidated the geography of Ram Sethu area, and indicated how many alternative routes could be developed without destroying the Sethu.
"I was opposing that which was directly cutting through the Sethu. I recommended building a container port and transport goods by railway system." He added that the goal of ill-conceived DMK initiated and Sonya Gandhi supported project was destruction of Ram Sethu.
He declared that not only the project was not cost effective, but environmentally damaging and potentially encourages anti-national activities, as revealed in the 8000 plus page documents researched and recorded by Dr Kalyanaraman.
Vemuri Subramaniam welcomed Dr. Swamy and Dr. Kalyanaraman and briefly explained the purpose of the meet as also the activities of Hindu Temple. Prasad Yalamanchi then introduced Dr. Swamy, as an outstanding intellectual, scholar and seasoned politician whose is closely associated with Janata Party ever since its inception. Born in Chennai, Tamilnadu he distinguished himself as a brilliant son of India, having had the opportunity serve his country in many capacities. He was a three term Member of Parliament.
He served as Commerce, Law and Justice Minister and later appointed as the Chairman of the Commission on International Trade.
Source: Indiapost
