RSS lights 1001 Deepa for protection of Ram Sethu

Bhubaneswar: (Visakeo)RSS has lighted as many as 1001 Deepa (a form of
Hindu religious items for prayer here at the historic Khandgiri caves
on the outskirt of the Temple City and took oath to fight against the
evil designs being planted by the Congress led UPA Government at
Centre and DMK backed M Karunanidhi led Government in Tamil Nadu over
the Rs 2.427 crorers Sethu Samundram Shipping Canal Project. RSS
leaders while observing the Dussehra here, said that the Government
and its allies are serving the interests of the Americans and the
Chinese through the Sethusamudram project. "When the common people,
scientists, environmentalists and archaeologists are vouching for the
existence of the Ram Sethu and the grave dangers posed by its proposed
breaking, Union Minister T R Baalu and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Karunanidhi are bent upon rubbishing them and trying to thrust their
dictatorship. Do such ministers have a right to continue in their
offices?" Puri Bibhaga Boudhika Pramukha Kushna Chandra Nayak asked.

He also claimed that the Sethusamudram project doesn't make any
economic sense as is being claimed by the UPA Government. He dwelt at
length on how the project will endanger the rich thorium deposits
along the coast that can revolutionise India's nuclear programme.
Other speakers observed that the US is trying to strengthen its
control over the Indian Ocean through the proposed waterway and is
pressuring the Indian Government to push the project. Similarly,
China, which has set up its strategic base at the Coco Island near
Myanmar, too, will be greatly helped by the project since it is
planning to build a modern port on an island near Sri Lanka, they
said. RSS State joint secretary Gopal Prasad Mohapatra, Khandgiri
Division secretary Gopal Rout, Arbinda Das, Debi Prasad Mohapatra,
Bhaskar Behera.