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Cancel Kachatheevu agreement: L. Ganesan

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L.Ganesan

CHENNAI: Bharatiya Janata Party State president L. Ganesan on Wednesday criticised authorities for granting permission to an organisation called Popular Front for taking out a procession in Madurai on Independence Day.

On the Kachatheevu issue, Mr. Ganesan said his party was for cancelling the 1974 agreement between India and Sri Lanka. Referring to the decision of the island-nation’s Supreme Court in October 2006 declaring the merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces, as a follow-up to the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 null and void, Mr. Ganesan asked why India could not resort to such a legal recourse. His party was contemplating moving the court in this regard.

As for the Centre’s submission in the Supreme Court that according to the Tamil classical work Kamba Ramayanam, Lord Ram himself demolished the Ramar Sethu (Ram’s bridge), Mr. Ganesan said he had consulted scholars and, according to them, there was no such reference.

He said there were some in Tamil Nadu who would not accept the existence of Lord Ram and that he had built the Sethu, but they would not have any hesitation to rely on the interpretation of Lord Ram himself having destroyed the bridge.

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