Dr. Subramanian Swamy's letter to Secretary, The Committee of Eminent Persons On Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project.

October 28,2007.

Secretary,

The Committee of Eminent Persons

On Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project,

“Malligai”, 30/95 P.S. Kumarasamy Raja Road,

Chennai, TN 600 028.

Dear Sir,

Kindly place the following objections and suggestions to, and for the implementation of the Sethusamundrum Channel Project (SSCP). I reserve the right to question the objectivity as also raise the matter of heavy bias and prejudice against the historicity of Sri Rama afflicting this Committee later before the Supreme Court.

I. OBJECTIONS:

1. It is false as declared by the Chairman of the Committee, Prof. S. Ramachandran to the media in a written statement, on June 11, 2007, that “There is no doubt that this chain of islands (i.e., Rama Setu) formed due to natural process” (Annexure 1). This creates an apprehension of bias and pre-judgment by the leader of this Committee on the issue whether or not a ship channel in the Palk Straits can safely and without causing public disorder, be dredged by cutting through the Rama Setu. The report prepared by the former Director of the Geological Survey of India, Dr. S. Badrinarayanan, is available with the Government and should be accessed by the Committee, to correct this erroneous view of the Chairman, which view has profound consequences. The President of India, on a reference to the Earth Sciences Department had received an opinion, submitted in March 2007, holding that the Setu is constructed and not “formed due to natural process” as the Chairman has held publicly. I am enclosing extracts of both these reports (Annexures 2 & 3). The media had made this disclosure on the basis of these reports as far back as May 8, 2007 (Annexure 4).

2. It is false as stated by the Minister of Culture, Ms. Ambika Soni in answer to a question in Rajya Sabha, that there is no “scientific evidence” to establish that the Rama Setu qualifies to be an ancient monument and that it lacks the essential ingredients required under law to be considered for inclusion in the list of ancient monuments. The evidence in Annexures 2 to 4 is sufficient under Sections of the Ancient Monuments and Archeological Sites & Remains Act (1958) requiring an investigation by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in association with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), to decide this question.

3. It is false as stated by the Minister of Shipping and Transport Mr. T.R. Baalu that the SSCP is environmentally sustainable, and cleared by the NEERI and other scientific establishments. The NEERI had conveyed in writing in a letter dated April 8, 1999 to the Government that prima facie the Institute was not in favour of the SSCP project at all. The NEERI also specifically rejected the Alignment No.5, circling Dhanushkodi because then the coral reef rocks beyond east of Dhanushkodi would have to be blasted by explosives, which would completely de-stablilize the marine environment and life.

On June 17, 2002, the NEERI did revise it’s opinion, in order to support the presently chosen Alignment No.6, but on the condition that explosives will not be used for cutting through the Rama Setu. However, the Minister of Shipping, Mr. Baalu has made a public statement that the Government (having failed repeatedly to cut through Rama Setu with dredger machines) proposed to use explosives to create a breach in Rama Setu. This is in violation of NEERI’s considered opinion. Moreover, as Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha publicly disclosed on September 2, 2005, an expert committee headed by the former Director of the NIOT, Mr. M. Ravindran in a report submitted on May 30, 2005 to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, well before the SSCP was inaugurated, had recommended more studies, tests and research as the NEERI 2002 study was shoddy, made without consulting the GSI, and professionally inadequate. Moreover, the NEERI failed to take into account as brought out by Shipping companies (Business Line, October 2007) that fishing activities in deep sea cannot be carried out after the SSCP becomes operational. That is, fishing and SSCP are mutually exclusive activities. This will cause monumental distress to the poor sections of Tamil society.

4. It is false to state that the SSCP is economically profitable. The rate of return calculation, the estimated time saved by ships in using the Sethusamudram Ship Channel, and the interest rate to be paid for loans to finance the project, are grossly wrong because these are based on contrived or bogus data. The studies of Captain H. Balakrishnan, and infrastructure consultant Dr. Jacob John may be referred to for more accurate calculation (See Annexures 5 & 6).

On the best and most favourable assumptions, the rate of return on the SSCP cannot exceed 2.75%, at which rate no public sector project can be sanctioned. It is then better to put the project funds in a fixed deposit and provide subsidies to ships to encourage them to dock at Thoothukudi port. Further, no ship of tonnage more than 30,000 DWT will be able to use the Channel, thus excluding the majority of ships plying on the Indian Ocean from the alleged benefits of the SSCP.

5. The Minister of Shipping Mr. T.R. Baalu, through relatives and benamis has commercial interests in the shipping industry through a company which charters ships of less than 30,000 DWT, which raises a serious question of conflict of interest on part of the Minister.

II. SUGGESTIONS:

1. If the Committee would want to be objective and just, then it ought to recommend to the Government to set up a multi-disciplinary agency (MDA) to re-calculate the economic returns, maintenance costs, environmental implications and social benefits of the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project. This MDA consisting of experts from GSI, NIOT, and overseas Indian origin consultants, should explicitly recognize that issues of public order and national security will matter in making its final recommendation.

2. The Committee in view of the irrefutable objections given above, has to rule out Alignment No.6 as impossible to implement, in view of the Rama Setu being an inalienable legacy of the nation that cannot be in the slightest desecrated and that too merely to satisfy perverse desires of a few atheistic persons in office or those ignorant or unaware of how deeply the nation worships Sri Rama. The nation-wide public order will be jeopardized if the Rama Setu is damaged in any way. Moreover, if the ASI finds that Rama Setu is indeed qualified to be an ancient monument, the SSCP cannot touch it under law. Hence Alignment No.6 must be abandoned forthwith as impossible to implement in Indian democracy. I have however no objection to Alignment No.1 being chosen (Annexure 7).

3. The Committee ought to recommend to the Ministry of Culture that it may immediately declare and notify the Rama Setu as an “Ancient Monument” within the meaning of the law laid out in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act (1958). The Committee should also recommend to the Government to approach the UNESCO to declare the Rama Setu as a ‘World Heritage Site’, and take necessary steps to provide the essential infrastructure to render Rama Setu as a ‘Tirthstan’ and ‘Divya Kshetra’.

Yours Sincerely

(Subramanian Swamy)

PRESS RELEASE FROM DR.SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY

Statement [s1] [s2] Made by Dr. Subramanian Swamy Before the Sethusamudram Channel Project Committee On October 31, 2007 in Chennai.

1. Since this Committee is of the Respondent Union of India in Transfer Case No. 26&27 in the Supreme Court, my statement may be taken as made to assist the Respondent to draft a revised counter-affidavit to be filed later in Court. My Writ Petition is in the nature of a public interest litigation and hence non-adversarial.

2. I have already in writing submitted on October 29 ^th to this Committee the main points that need to be considered, before this Committee makes a recommendation to it's master, the Union of India on the content that should be the basis of a fresh counter-affidavit. These written submissions are part of, and taken by the Committee as a portion of my statement today.

3. In keeping with the public statement of the Union Law Minister, H.R. Bhardwaj that Sri Rama is as real to Hindus as Ganga and the Himalayas, and the statement in Court of the Additional Solicitor General, Mr. Gopal Subramaniam that the Union of India is open to considering alternative channel alignment that meets the aspiration of the people, I urge the Committee members here to shed their past positions on the subject, and advise the Union Shipping Ministry to drop Channel Alignment No. 6 as violative of the Constitution, the statutory provisions on public order, a gross breach of environmental norms, and a serious threat to national security. I have suggested an alternative alignment through the Mandappan area, and if this Committee considers it as not feasible for any rational reason, then the Sethusamudram Channel Project may be abandoned.

4. The current cost-benefit analysis of the project, irrespective the alignment chosen is heavily flawed and based on unacceptable, untenable, and highly conjectural data. The public statement of the Union Shipping Minister, Mr. T.R. Baalu that the internal rate of return on the project investment is in excess of 10 percent is false. Any reasonable, albeit tentative calculation will place the IRR at less than 2.75 percent. Moreover, the DPR of the project has no social costing, social auditing, or a discussion of the social discount rate for a more accurate present value calculation. Hence, it is a grossly incomplete analysis, and needs to be re-worked and drafted with greater transparency.

5. Now that it is apparent that the people of India will not brook any damage to the Rama Setu, this Committee should consider recommending to the Union government of India that the Rama Setu be declared as an ancient monument with the meaning the law passed by Parliament, develop infrastructure for it as a site for pilgrimage, and that the government approach the UNESCO to have it declared as a World Heritage Site. The Committee may also recommend to the government that the mischievous British Imperialist hangover of regarding the two Sanskrit words, "Arya" and "Dravida" as two distinct racial communities of different geographical origins, and which mischief has grossly sullied the debate on the viability of the SSCP, be notified as violative of Section 295 of the IPC, and cognisable offence.

Subramanian Swamy

The foam and fraud of SSCP’s nautical falsehood — I

By: V Sundaram
http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=33&id=1214

Many of the Union Cabinet Ministers and many of the public servants in positions of high authority in the government of India need public insults in the larger public interest. Many of them behave or conduct themselves so abominably that they cry out for public abuse.’

There is no table of weights and measures for ascertaining or determining what constitutes the Due Process. It varies with the subject matter and necessities of the situation. DUE PROCESS OF LAW requires that the proceedings shall be fair, but fairness is a relative, not an absolute concept. It is fairness with reference to particular conditions or particular results.

Whichever way one looks at it, there has been a total violation of the DUE PROCESS by the government in according sanction for the SSCP with breakneck speed in 2005. That is why I am appealing to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India to treat this article as as a Public Interest Litigation and to stay the construction work till all the public issues are fully thrashed out openly in the highest Judicial Tribunal of the land.
.

In these columns in May 2007, I had written three articles based on the data and facts collected by a brilliant officer of the Indian Navy Captain Balakrishnan. Based on his acute analysis, and endorsing his view, I had come to the conclusion that that the SSCP project makes no nautical sense in so far as the Indian Coastal Trade (clearly distinct from Foreign Trade involving Foreign Vessels and Foreign Exchange) is concerned.

I said that going through the SSCP Canal no Indian Ship will save either money or time - both of which have been fraudulently claimed as significant benefits arising from the SSCP project.

Now Captain Balakrishnan, with his vast, rich and varied marine experience in the Indian Navy and later in the Merchant Navy, has mathematically proved in a rigourously scientific manner that even in the area of Foreign Trade (so very vital for the Indian economy if not for T.R. Baalu’s private and political SSCP!) SSCP makes no nautical sense - either from point of view of savings in Cost or saving in Time.

I have shown the Nautical Calculations done by Balakrishnan to some of the most distinguished Officers of the Indian Navy and Indian Merchant Navy and all of them have endorsed the Technical/Marine facts and figures based on which he has given his finding in regard to the implications of SSCP for India’s Foreign Trade.

I would like to pay my tribute to Balakrishnan in the words that Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) used in the case of Admiral Lord Fisher: Ruthless, Relentless and Remorseless.

I am presenting below the TIME AND DISTANCE CALCULATIONS FOR FOREIGN TRADE done by Captain Balakrishnan in his own words:

TIME AND DISTANCE CALCULATIONS- NAVIGATING AROUND SRI LANKA AND THROUGH SSCP - PASSAGES FROM MUSCAT AND ADEN TO CHITTAGONG/ SINGAPORE

1. The Detailed Project Report (DPR), of the SSCP, states all vessels up to 20,000 DWT, about 75 % of 30,000 DWT, 10% of 40,000 DWT vessels and 5% of 50,000 DWT vessels will be able to use the canal. Also, all empty vessels (in ballast) can pass through the canal.

2. The DPR, highlighting other USPs of the SSCP, anticipates that from the very first year of its operation, 60% of its revenue will accrue from vessels plying on foreign trade routes.

3. In an earlier series of analysis of the SSCP, published in the media, the nautical viability of the SSCP, from the Indian coastal trade standpoint had been analysed. This paper analyses the same issue from the foreign sea trade point of view. Two voyages have been chosen, where a ship has the option of either circumnavigating Sri Lanka or navigating through the SSCP.



(The foregoing distances above have been derived from actual plotting on navigational charts.)
18. Additional Time For Passage Planning For purposes of embarkation/disembarkation of ‘Pilot’, manoeuvering of engines in the SSCP, as also for any delays in embarkation of ‘Pilot’- ADD = 2 hours (at the minimum) to all the passage times indicated above.

DEDUCTIONS

19. From the foregoing calculations, the following deductions can be arrived at:

A. The difference in time taken to reach Chittagong from Muscat, circumnavigating Sri Lanka and navigating through the SSCP at speeds of 12 and 6 knots is = 8.9h

B. The difference in time taken to reach Chittagong from Muscat, circumnavigating Sri Lanka and navigating through the SSCP at speeds of 12 and 8 knots is = 12.4h

C. The difference in time taken to reach Chittagong from Muscat, circumnavigating Sri Lanka and navigating through the SSCP at speeds of 15 and 6 knots is = 3.9h

D. The difference in time taken to reach Chittagong from Muscat, circumnavigating Sri Lanka and navigating through the SSCP at speeds of 15 and 8 knots is = 7.4h

E. The difference in time taken to reach Singapore from Aden circumnavigating Sri Lanka and navigating through the SSCP at speeds of 12 and 6 knots is = 14.2h (NOTE: THIS IS ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT THE VOYAGE DISTANCE INCREASES BY 63nm BY TRANSITING THROUGH THE SSCP!!

F. The difference in time taken to reach Singapore from Aden circumnavigating Sri Lanka and navigating through the SSCP at speeds of 15 and 8 knots is = 11.1h

G. Comment: The deductions in voyage time between Aden and Singapore implies that SHIPPING TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM EUROPEAN/MEDITERRANEAN/RED SEA PORTS AND BOUND FOR THE FAR-EAST WILL BYPASS THE SSCP AND CIRCUMNAVIGATE SRI LANKA. THE SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR TRAFFIC ORIGINATING FROM PORTS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA/EAST AFRICA. A SIZEABLE SLICE OF GLOBAL SHIPPING TRAFFIC!!

H. While there is a nominal savings in distance navigating through the SSCP,this does not automatically translate into commensurate savings in time, on account of the ‘slow speeds’ required to navigate through the SSCP. This is on account of a phenomenon termed ‘SHALLOW WATER EFFECT’, or, ‘SQUAT EFFECT’, where the ship’s propellers tend to seek the sea bottom while proceeding at High Speeds in shallow waters.

The SSCP is to have a dredged depth of 12 meters and can be used by ships having a draught of upto 10.7 meters. Thus the difference between the ship’s keel and the sea bottom will be 12.0-10.7=1.3 metres. This explains the necessity for ‘slow speeds’ through the SSCP.

I. It is mandatory for ships using the SSCP to embark a ‘pilot’. In the calculations above, at a conservative estimate, a time 2 hours has been added to passage time calculations. Under actual conditions, this time may be more than the 2 hours.

All the major ports of India suffer from a shortage of ‘pilots’. Therefore, the SSCP is also likely to suffer from this prevailing malaise. It is therefore appreciated that vessels arriving at the ‘pilot boarding grounds’ at the SSCP may have to anchor and await ‘pilot boarding’. In this light, it would further tend to reduce the difference in time between circumnavigating Sri Lanka and using the SSCP.

CONCLUSION

20. The foregoing calculations and the analysis based on them, from first principles, clearly highlight the NON-VIABILITY OF THE SSCP, for foreign trade vessels.


(To be continued)

October 25, 2007
PRESS RELEASE by Dr. Subramanian Swamy

1. Now that the Supreme Court has disowned the Government –appointed so-called “Committee of Eminent Persons on Sethu Samudram Canal Project”, it is necessary to re-name the committee as “Baalu’s Anti-Rama Committee (BARC)”, since it contains as members only those who have to date rubbished Hindu holy scriptures and ridiculed the Rama Setu.

2. Judging by the defensive mode of the Congress Party on the Rama Setu issue in the Gujarat election campaign currently in progress, it is obvious that this BARC is a waste of time and a drain on the public exchequer.

3. The Sethu Samudram Canal Project is now doomed because the Alignment No.6 chosen earlier at the insistence of the DMK called for breaking through Rama Setu by use of explosives. This is not acceptable to the people of India. Even Kashmiri leaders like Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq and Shabir Shah have publicly opposed this route because Muslims regard Rama as “Imam-E-Hind” (the divinity of Hindustan).

4. Of the remaining five alternatives, four are barred by the environment impact assessments of the NEERI and hence not feasible. The only remaining route is via the land route west of Pamban and through Mandapam. For that, the SSCP has to be first scrapped and re-written.
(Subramanian Swamy)

October 24, 2007
PRESS RELEASE

The Supreme Court's First Bench consisting of Chief Justice K.Balakrishnan, Judges Raveedran and Dalbir Bhandari todaydisowned the Committee of Eminent Persons, appointed by the Government of India in the Sethusamudram Canal Project matter, which committee is tosuggest a new counter affidavitto be filed iby the government in the Supreme Court by mid-December. The CJI observed that theapexcourt did not constitute the said committee and therefore is not interested whether it is biased or not. The CJI further observed that when the matter comes up in January 2008, I would beat liberty to raise all objections to the Committee at that stage before the Court if the Government relies onthe committee'sreport.

I had in my Interlocutory Applicationsaid thattheCommittee was biased and rigged, and since it's formationwas announced by the Additional Solicitor General in Court, direction ought tobe given by the Bench to quash the present committee and a new unbiased committee should be set up.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

VHP wants Kalam in Sethu committee

Allahabad, Oct 17: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad today demanded that a committee be set up under the chairmanship of former President A P J Abdul Kalam to study the feasibility of the Sethusamudram project in its proposed form.

"We have no faith in any feasibility study conducted by any experts committee set up by the central government as it is unlikely to serve any purpose other than protecting the interests of vested interests and, to some extent, appeasing the Marxists who have never had any respect for traditions and sentiments of Hindus", VHP International President Ashok Ssinghal told reporters here.

He said that to resolve the crisis, a team of experts headed by Kalam, "who is himself a native of Rameswaram and whose patriotism is unquestionable", should be constituted which would "honestly state the perils involved in demolishing the Ram sethu and also suggest suitable alternatives".

Lauding the Supreme Court's tough stand against Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK when it threatened to stage a bandh for speedy completion of the project, the VHP supremo hoped "the country's highest judicial body will make the necessary intervention in the matter".

Singhal also said VHP would go ahead with its mass awareness campaign on the Sethusamudram issue, "which would be of much greater magnitude than Ayodhya and eventually lead to a political atmosphere in which no outfit would dare to take Hindus for granted".

To all those who live in Canada

Faith Journal show will air the show on Hinduism with guest Dr. Subramanian Swamy on Saturday, Oct.13 & Saturdy, Oct.20. These shows air on CTS at 6pm Saturday evening (with a repeat on Monday at 1pm). Dr. Subramanian Swamy will be on both Saturday night shows consecutively. Please feel free to copy the show for yourself.

Violation of Hindu HR - Need for a Hindu nation - IV

V SUNDARAM

Anationalistic and patriotic Hindu of post-independent India, who derives his inspiration and nationalistic idealism from the teachings of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal, Bal Gangadar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Vir Savarkar, and such other incomparable patriots, has great difficulty in feeling himself to be a part of the 'imaginary Nation' (a Pseudo Secular Anti-Hindu Notion!!) for which the whole national system today is being operated by the all the Governments in Inda. He is unable to identify himself emotionally with this imaginary, artificial, 'composite' national entity which the Indian State has been representing. An 'enormous gulf' has been created between the 'NATION' and the 'STATE', between the national society and the ruling class. It is this gulf which is causing disintegration and decimation of the national society, organised disappearance of collective consciousness and sensitivity, debasement, debauchment and degeneration of social conscience. It is because of this politically motivated and criminally perpetrated hiatus between a false Nation (Notion!!) and a truly blood-sucking State that there is a continuous proliferation of selfishness, corruption and moral degradation in all walks of our national life today. The larger 'Hindu National Society' has been totally alienated from the State and the national will to boldly face all the problems confronting our nation today has all but vanished.

THUS, I AM OF THE CONSIDERED VIEW THAT THERE IS GROSS VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF HINDUS IN INDIA. What are Human Rights? 'Human Rights' mean 'the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.' The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.'

Hindu Human Rights must commonly include the following Cluster of Rights:

* Security rights that prohibit crimes such as murder/'enforced' involuntary suicide, massacre, torture and rape

* Liberty rights that protect freedoms in areas such as belief and religion, association, assembling and movement

* Political rights that protect the liberty to participate in politics by expressing themselves, protesting, participating in a republic

* Due process rights that protect against abuses of the legal system such as imprisonment without trial, secret trials and excessive punishments

* Equality rights that guarantee equal citizenship, equality before the law and nondiscrimination

* Welfare rights (also known as economic rights) that require the provision of, eg, education, paid holidays, and protections against severe poverty and starvation

* Group rights

Security Rights of Hindus are being denied by the Government and the State. Liberty Rights are being abridged by the anti-Hindu Government on the one hand and denied by the pseudo-secular (in effect anti-Hindu) political parties on the other. Political Rights are being denied by the Government, State and all the political parties acting under the ideological umbrella of 'Perverted Secularism'. Due process rights are being denied by the Judiciary at all levels, acting as self-proclaiming cultural and legal spokesmen for upholding only 'Minority Rights'. Equality rights are being denied by the Government, the State and the Judiciary, diabolically acting together in concert, apart from all the political parties directly involved in a collective conspiracy against the Hindus of India. Welfare rights and Group rights of only the minorities - The Muslims and the Christians - are the concern of the Government and the State. Those of Hindus are irrelevant, anti-national and anti-social - in short, 'Communal'. Thus the Vicious Circle of Denial of Hindu Human Rights is comprehensive, universal, total and all-pervasive.

All these rights are being denied to the Hindus who are in absolute numerical majority in India. I shall prove this thesis by posing some simple and direct questions at the end of this paper.

The significant point that merits attention today is that though we Hindus are a Nation, we are not yet an independent Nation. We are still a subjugated Nation. If we analyze carefully, we can see that the Hindu Nation did not actually gain freedom on August 15, 1947. The Hindus of India only underwent a change of the Master, a change of rulers from Vilayathi Anti-Indian Rulers to Desi Anti-Hindu Rulers. Thanks to the honest commitment of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Muslim Nation of undivided India gained their own geographic space and freedom on 14 August, 1947 but not the battered Hindus of India. The Muslims established their own State in that territory called Pakistan and that State is still conducting its affairs by holding the cultural aspirations, honour and interests of the Muslims of Bharath Varsha also as its responsibility. But Hindus neither gained recognition as a Nation, nor their own State nor control over their National Homeland or destiny.

Thus there is no STATE today, certainly not in India, to protect Hindu interests in the international arena, to raise an effective voice for the Hindus. If Jews are unjustly treated in any part of the world, the State of Israel, supreme representative of an independent Jewish Nation, immediately raises its voice. Our disgusting Prime Minister would spend sleepless nights only for Hanif in Australia and not for the peaceful Hindus who get killed in Afghanistan or the Middle East.

The sole and supreme task before us Hindus now is that we rescue ourselves from the suicidal stranglehold of the alternate anti-Hindu Nation-Perception of Gandhi and Nehru, and awaken National Consciousness in ourselves. We have to develop a clear National Vision. Such a vision should show us that

A) We Hindus are a NATION, not a religious community. Our national identity is Hindu. We would declare the name of our nationality to be Hindu, and no other name would be acceptable to us.

B) The distinctive feature of our NATION is 'Sanatana Dharma'. We shall not accept any other alien ideology as the heritage of our country. We cannot regard any alien creed as our religion.

C) Undivided India is our Motherland. Even though parts of India have seceded today, we do not accept this division. Our goal is to reunite the whole of our ancestral Homeland into our Motherland, regardless of all terror and, however long and hard the road may be.

D) Hindu Culture is our national culture. Hindu Society is our national society. Hindu Art is our national art. Hindu Literature is our national literature. Hindu History is our national history. There is no Muslim Period or British Period in this history; it is only the history of continuous Hindu struggle against Muslim invaders and British colonialists. The struggle against the Perverted Secularists is still continuing. Without victory in this struggle, there is no survival - no survival for Hindus and Sanatana Dharma, no survival for the urge and impulse of the Ages.

E) People subscribing the theologies of alien religion are minorities in our country, not a part of our nation. We consider these alien ideologies to be enemies of our nation. The goal is to bring our minorities back into our nation.

F) Sanskrit is our national mother tongue, with its sister languages and many off- springs.

G) We are still a subjugated, enslaved nation. Perverted Nehru Secularists are not our own people. Their regime is nor our regime. We have to liberate Mother India from their stranglehold and earn our freedom. To secure our freedom, the Hindu Nation has to gain its independence. After securing freedom, we have to set up our own Nation State - The Hindu Nation State. We have to discard the present Indian Constitution and give ourselves a new Constitution of our own rooted in our own national, cultural, spiritual and religious ethos.

In order to understand and know the extent to which there is a gross violation of Human Rights of Hindus in India, we have only to pose the following simple questions:

There are nearly 52 Muslim countries. Which Muslim country provides Haj subsidy?

Which is the Muslim country where Hindus are extended the same special rights that Muslims are accorded in India?

Which is the country where the 85% majority craves for the indulgence of the 15 per cent minority under its own Constitution?

Which is the Muslim country that has a non-Muslim as its President or Vice President or Prime Minister?

Has any Mullah or Maulvi ever issued a 'fatwa' against the terrorists?

When Christian and Muslim Schools can teach the Bible and the Quran respectively, why cannot the Hindus teach the Bhagavad Gita or the Ramayana in their schools?

Why are temple funds spent for the welfare of Muslims and Christians, even when they have all the freedom to spend their money in any way they like only - and only for themselves?

Why does the Government of India consider Sanskrit as communal and Urdu as secular, Mandir as communal and Masjid as secular, Sadhu as communal and Imam as secular, BJP as communal and Muslim League as secular, Vande Mataram as communal and Allah as secular?

I am ready to sacrifice my life for Ram Setu: Bitta
7 Oct 2007, 1102 hrs IST,PTI

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/I_am_ready_to_sacrifice_my_life_for_Ram_Setu_Bitta/articleshow/2436415.cms

NEW DELHI: Former Youth Congress chief M S Bitta has sought to take potshots at his own party as also DMK chief M Karunanidhi over Ram Setu, declaring that he was ready to sacrifice his life to save it.

Bitta, who currently heads the All India Anti-Terrorist Front and is known to be closer to causes espoused by the BJP, said he is a great devotee of Lord Hanuman.

In an interview to the RSS mouthpiece Organiser , Bitta, who is a Sikh, said "I am a great devotee of Lord Hanuman. I have great faith in him. Without Lord Ram, there is no Lord Hanuman."

Bitta said Lord Ram's name finds innumerable mention in the Sikh religious scriptures.

Noting that Mahatma Gandhi had died with Lord Ram's name on his lips, he said it hurt him when it was said there was no evidence to prove his existence.

"My life is a bonus. I have been a target of terrorists for opposing the killing and forcible eviction of Hindus from Punjab. At Agniteertham on the Rameshwaram shores, I took a vow that following the path of Guru Gobind Singh, I will be the first to sacrifice my life if any attempt was made to demolish the bridge built by Lord Ram and his army," Bitta said.

He demanded that a White Paper be brought out to find the people responsible for the controversy and said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, "an atheist", was responsible to a great extent.

'Adam's Bridge a man-made structure' says retired Director of Geological Survey of India.

specials.rediff.com ...

An interview with Dr Badrinarayanan, former director of the Geological Survey of India.

Rameswaram Ramsetu Protection Movement
12 MV Naidu Street, Chetpet, Chennai 600031
Tel. 044 2836-0243 saveramasetu@gmail.com

Press Statement (For immediate release)

Rameswaram Ramsetu Protection Movement (RRPM) expresses serious concerns about the credibility and transparency in the composition and formation of the advisory committee reported to have been appointed by Govt. of India to review the Setusamudram Channel Project. RRPM which spearheads the movement to protect Rama Setu, had not been consulted before the formation of this Committee, despite the letter addressed on 30 September 2007 to the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India.

The reported formation and terms of reference of the committee are not in conformity with the undertakings given to the Hon'ble Supreme Court on 14 September 2007, by Shri Gopal Subramanium, Additional Solicitor General, on behalf of the respondent, Union of India: "…To re-examine the entire matter. The Government assures all concerned that all materials will be re-scrutinized with care and circumspection, including any alternative suggestions." The Govt. further submitted that the matter may be adjourned to enable the Government to review the matter.

In the context of this undertaking given to the highest court of the land, it is surprising that the committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Shri S. Ramachandran, Vice Chancellor of Madras University together with other members some of whom are already members of the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project Environmental Impact Issues Monitoring Committee. Such members owe allegiance to project authorities, and there will be a conflict of interest since they had already been associated by the Union Shipping Ministry as part of the project work. People will not have confidence in such a committee since the Chairman and members are likely to defend the work already done by them, so far, for the project. Such a committee cannot be expected to re-scrutinize the entire project with "care and circumspection". Shri Ramachandran had reportedly issued press statements that dredging had not adversely impacted the environment, tha aquatic resources of fish have increased due to the dredging activity and that Ramasetu is not an ancient monument. Such a person being appointed as the Chairman of the proposed advisory committee does not inspire confidence that there would be a comprehensive, independent, unbiased re-examination, since the members can only be expected to repeat their earlier views biased in favor of destroying Rama Setu by implementing the chosen channel alignment.


The composition of the proposed advisory committee and which does not include experts from Geological Survey of India, seismology experts, ecosystem experts, oceanography experts, tsunami experts, mariners, experts in naval salvage operations, experts in law of the sea, fishermen community representatives, marine archaeology experts, defense/strategic security experts, is therefore not credible and transparent. RRPM demands that an independent commission be appointed under the direction and monitoring of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and required to submit a report to the Hon'ble Court to implement, in spirit and in letter, the Government's undertaking given to the Hon'ble Court.

S. Kalyanaraman, Ph.D.,
National President (RRPM)
6 October 2007

S. Vedantam,
National General Secretary (RRPM)

D. Kuppuramu, Advocate,
National Secretary (RRPM)

To
Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh ji. 01123015603

Cc: Hon'ble Hansraj Bharadwaj, Union Minister of Law & Justice 11 2338 4241

Violation of Hindu HR - Need for a Hindu nation - III

V SUNDARAM

The fact that 'WE HINDUS ARE A NATION' is by no means a new idea. This idea has been with us from the dawn of history. The saint, sage and seer Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) made the most powerful pronouncement of this idea in 1893. In his brief 5-minute first address, Swami Vivekananda declared at the inaugural session of the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893: 'I thank you in the name of the millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects'. Then he spoke THREE SENTENCES which were most significant. First, he said: 'I am proud to belong to a RELIGION which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.' In the second sentence he said: 'I am proud to belong to a NATION which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth'. In this context, he cited an example, namely, that when the sacred temple of the Jews was demolished by the Romans, we Hindus gave shelter to the Jewish refugees and took care of them in India. In the third sentence, Swamiji said: 'I am proud to belong to a RELIGION which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnants of the grand Zoroastrian nation'. In these three consecutive sentences, Swami Vivekananda proclaimed his pride of belonging first 'to a religion', then second 'to a nation' and third again 'to a religion'.

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

It will be clear that Swami Vivekananda used the words 'Religion' and 'Nation' as synonymous terms. No pseudo-secularist in India today can have any doubt about what religion or nation SWAMIJI was talking about and what his perception of nationhood was. Swami Vivekananda was emphatically clear that the essential feature of Hindu Nationhood was the Hindu religion, the 'Sanatana Dharma'. He was only declaring 'We Hindus are a Nation'. The cardinal fact that 'We Hindus are a Nation' unto ourselves and not just a religious community formed the crucial plank of our first national movement in 1905, viz. the 'Swadeshi Movement' in undivided Bengal. When Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon in 1905, the entire society rose up as one MAN with solid determination at a moment of great and unprecedented national upsurge. No one at that time had the slightest doubt that 'We Hindus are a Nation'. That is why in Calcutta city, on the first day of the agitation 50,000 people took a collective oath before Goddess Kali in the Holy Kalighat Temple to the effect that 'we shall throw the British out of our homeland'. The famous historian R.C. Majumdar rightly concluded that he saw no difference in those days between Sanatana Dharma and Indian Nationalism. When Lord Minto conspired and plotted against the Hindu freedom fighters of Bengal in 1906, he roped in the Muslims under Agah Khan to create the Muslim League in order to divide the country. The era of Muslim appeasement started by Lord Minto, reached its climax in 1920 when Mahatma Gandhi became the Chairman of the Kilafat Movement for the restoration of the Turkish Monarchy and Empire. Thereafter, at every stage in our struggle for freedom, Muslims were appeased by Congress Leaders and Mahatma Gandhi for the next 25 years. The sad fact is that despite this deferential attitude towards the Muslims, the Congress and Mahatma Gandhi miserably failed to convince Mohammed Ali Jinnah about the need for the continued existence of a United India even after the British withdrawal from India. It has to be sadly borne in mind that after 1933, Jinnah was continuously proclaiming 'We Muslims are a Nation' till the birth of Pakistan on 14 August, 1947.

After Indian independence, Jawaharlal Nehru promoted his concept of false nationhood under the label of 'secularism'. According to this concept, all the people who happen to reside on the soil of India form a Nation, whether he follows the culture of this country or not, whether he is loyal to this country or not. It does not matter if the state-aided minorities dismiss the time-honoured culture of this country 'Sanatana Dharma' as abominable and as a path of the Devil. Thus in a mischievous way Nehru turned the concept of 'Nationhood' into a geographic entity and bade good-bye to the established principles of 'Nationhood' founded on emotional and cultural unity and all that it implies. According to this Nehru's notion, Hindus of India in majority have to lose the inheritance of their traditional homeland. Nehru used his transitory political might to propagate this philosophy and this became the corner stone of all his policies and proved disastrous for the Hindus. Tragically for the Hindu Nation, Jawaharlal Nehru shamelessly declared: 'To talk of Hindu culture would injure India's interests. By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim, and I am a Hindu only by accident of birth�. The ideology of Hindu Dharma is completely out of tune with the present times and if it took root in India, it would smash the country to pieces'. Nehru dismissed the Hindus of India as a mere religious community without any cultural traditions going back to the dawn of history. Thus Nehru had total contempt for Hindu religion, for Hindu culture, for Hindu society and above all for the average Hindu.

This alternate concept of perverted 'Nehruvian Nationhood' as opposed to 'Sanatana Dharma', meant State-engineered opposition to the Hindus in all walks of life. ANTAGONISM TO HINDUS EMERGED AS THE CORNER STONE OF STATE POLICY. The ideology of Nehruism came to be lauded, acclaimed, promoted and propagated under the name 'Secularism' till it came to be treated beyond reproach, beyond debate and beyond discussion. In short, all the Hindus of India became second class citizens depending upon the sufferance�even patronage�of the minority. Dressed in brief mortal authority, Nehru's purblind audacity reached its climax when he wrote to Kailash Nath Katju in 1953: 'In practice the individual Hindu is more intolerant and more narrow-minded than almost any person in any other country'.

Thus we have before us two alternate perceptions of our 'Nation' and 'Nationhood'; one of Swami Vivekananda and the other of Jawaharlal Nehru. Swami Vivekananda represented the time-defying sources and forces of truth; Jawaharlal Nehru represented the sources and forces of falsehood, fraud and ignorance based upon communal votebank politics. Swami Vivekananda says that Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations. Jawaharlal Nehru, a mere 50 years later, tells us that if the Hindu Dharma thrives, the country will smash to pieces. To quote the telling words of Abhas Chatterjee: 'Swami Vivekananda says that Hindu culture is the life-current of our nation, Jawaharlal Nehru says it would injure the nation even to talk of Hindu culture. One was supremely proud of being a Hindu, the other so ashamed of it that he rejected it as an accident of birth'.

The greatest tragedy in our national life after 1947, much more disastrous than the invasion of India by Muslim Marauders like Timur in 1398, Babar in 1526, Nadir Shah in 1739 and Ahmed Shah Abdali in 1761, has been the invasion of Nehruvian Secularism which started on August 15, 1947 and is still continuing unabated and unchallenged, clothed in the aura of official authority of the Government of India, now institutionalized into a hereditary Nehru family heirloom in perpetuity.

Nehru's viciously political concept of a geographical or composite nation, Nehruism or secularism, whichever way you call it, was nothing but a pernicious anti-Hindu ideology, which came to be lauded, acclaimed, promoted and propagated by most political parties after 1950 and the mafia of mass media in India and abroad, under the name of 'Secularism' till it came to be treated as something beyond any reproach, beyond any public debate and discussion. Nehru and his family used the might of their public offices for three generations to implant this poisonous weed of 'Secularism' in the national psyche. This has led to some disastrous socio-political consequences for the very survival of Hindus, Hindu Culture, Hindu Society, Hindu Religion and above all Sanatana Dharma.

To sum up, after our independence, we were taught to look at the history of Bharatvarsha from a new angle of State-sponsored distorted vision. We were asked to regard Indian history as one of pseudo-secular synthesis. To quote Abhas Chatterjee once again:

'We were asked to overlook the barbaric tyranny that was perpetrated on us in order to force Islam down our throats from 1025 AD till 1707 AD. The horrible persecution, the blunder, the vandalism, and the massacres should all be forgotten. Or we should assume these acts of Islamic compassion to have been the personal aberrations of a few Rulers. In order to project the history of India as a history of synthesis, an imaginary course of events was constructed, viz. that from olden days foreigners kept on coming to India and settling down by and by, so that they kept getting mingled with one another and a new 'Nation' was formed, a new 'Culture' was thus created. So, we don't really have a 'National Culture' of our own but only a 'Hybrid Composite Culture' politically manufactured by the Government.'

(To be contd...)