West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee claims Ram didn't exist
West Bengal Chief Minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has raised a controversy again, this time by calling
Ram an imaginary character and describing as "communal forces" those who oppose the
Ram Sethu project.
Bhattacharjee said, "I am amazed to see that some communal forces are bent on establishing that
Ram built a bridge across the sea. How is that possible? How many engineering colleges did we have those days?
Ram is a mythological character and the so-called bridge is a natural phenomenon that geologists have already explained."
Bhattacharjee held Gujarat CM
Narendra Modi and the BJP responsible for tearing apart the secular fabric of the state. "A large number of
Muslim traders, big and small, have fled Gujarat. A similar phenomenon can be seen in Rajasthan. There is an effort to spread the venom of communalism across
India."
BJP leader
L.K. Advani reacted to
Bhattacharjee's statement, saying his questioning the existence of Lord Ram was "highly objectionable" and an offence under the law as it hurt religious sentiments.
State BJP general secretary
Rahul Sinha said, "The mental balance of the chief minister is questionable. His statements have no value whatsoever because a few days later he will retract them and apologise."
"The CPI(M) has been playing a communal game, as it did with the ouster of Bangladeshi author
Taslima Nasreen. The Left has proved that it is the most communal party," he said.
The BJP leader pointed out that the CPI(M) had once criticised
Ram Krishna Paramhansa as â??an epileptic', Tagore as a â??bourgeois poet' and
Subhas Chandra Bose as â??Japanese premier Tojo's dog'. "Later, the Left decided to re-evaluate their contributions and accepted them as their own," Sinha said.
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