A huge rally organised by the Sangh Parivar in New Delhi on Sunday to protest the alleged destruction of Ram Sethu marked the beginning of its campaign against the UPA Government at the Centre ahead of the next general elections with speaker after speaker urging people to throw out the Congress-led coalition.

Though the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani was absent and other party leaders present on the dais chose not to speak, the VHP leaders and sadhus went overboard attacking the ruling coalition.

Demanding that Ram Sethu be declared a national monument and Rameswaram a holy city, the sadhus exhorted Hindus to use their voting right to throw out “all opponents of Ram” from the corridors of power.

While RSS chief K S Sudarshan attacked the Congress for the affidavit it had submitted in the Supreme Court denying the historical existence of Ram, VHP leader Ashok Singhal blamed the Congress and the Communists for calling Ram an imaginary figure.

Asserting that Ram was a historical Mahapurush and India an ancient nation, he said that both the Sethu and the nation belongs to

Ram (Ram ka hai Setu, Ram ka hai desh).

Acharya Dharmendra attacked the Congress in general and Sonia Gandhi in particular, calling her a foreigner. He said that today’s Congress party was not the Congress of Tilak, Malaviya and Patel and claimed that it no longer possesses a right-of-the-centre space in the country.

The Hindus should now take out the funeral procession of the Congress with the slogan ‘Ram Naam Satya Hai’, he said.

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