If no Ram, how PB member became Sitaram Yechury, VHP asks Buddha

Bhubaneswar: (visakeo)-Reacting to the statement of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee over the existence of Lord Ram, VHP on Saturday asked the Bengal Chief Minister to correct the name of party's politibureau member Sitaram Yechury. If their was no Ram, then how his party's leader named as Sitaram Yechury, asked VHP State secretary Gouri Prasad Rath. Reigniting the Ram Sethu controversy, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had questioned the existence of Lord Ram triggering an angry reaction from the VHP, which said the comment constituted an offence. "Ram is a figment of a poet's imagination and Ram Sethu is a natural formation under the sea," Bhatacharjee had said at a meeting to mark the 15th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid on Thursday. The Chief Minister's comments were extremely intolerable not only politically but also under the law as it is an offence to hurt the religious sentiments of any community and in this case it was the majority community, Rath said. He further said that Ram was a matter of faith in India. "Ram is the soul of India and no Indian irrespective of religion can question his existence," he added. He further alleged that the remarks were an attempt to appease the Muslim vote bank after the fiasco in Nandigram. Bhattacharjee's remarks came three months after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the existence of Lord Ram generating a country-wide controversy, which seemed like a well coordinated plan, he said.