VHP stages fast to protest against 'Ramar Sethu' demolition

Chennai, Aug 12 (UNI) The activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today staged a token fast here to protest against the ''demolition'' of 'Ramar Sethu' (Adam's bridge) in the Palk Straits for Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project.

Speaking on the occasion, VHP International Working President S Vedantham said about 20 per cent of 'Ramar Sethu' had been demolished, despite the Madras High Court's recent observation that the Centre should preserve it as a national heritage.

He said the VHP would organise a ''Rameswaram Chalo'' agitation on August 26 and take pledge to make any sacrifice to protect the 'Sethu'.

Refuting the project Chairman's recent claim that US space agency NASA had concluded that 'Ramar Sethu' was not man-made, he said NASA had clarified, in response to an email by the outfit, that their information was based solely on astronaut photography dataset, which did not provide information on the age, subsurface structure or composition of islands in the Palk Straits.

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