HC moved against Karunanidhi’s blasphemous remarks

Chennai, Sept 18: A petition seeking the removal of M Karunanidhi from the Chief Ministership of Tamil Nadu for his remarks against Lord Ram was filed in the Madras High Court today for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus.

The quo warranto petition has been filed by Ramathangarasu, President of Tamil Nadu Bharathiya Jana Shakthi.

According to Ramathangarasu, he came to know about Karunanidhi’s speech from newspaper reports. Karunanidhi had challenged the very existence of Lord Rama and criticized him as an ordinary citizen, much inferior to an engineer. He had deliberately made the declaration in order to tarnish the image of Lord Rama. His speech directly affected the feelings and sentiments of a majority of Hindus, Ramathangarasu said.

Being the Chief Minister, Karunanidhi ought not to have criticized Lord Ram, affecting the sentiments of Hindus, thereby committing breach of peace. Karunanidhi who pledged to uphold the Constitution, had violated his oath, he said.

The petitioner also sought to restrain Karunanidhi from signing any record as Chief Minister, pending disposal of his petition.

Karunanidhi had stated at a public meeting at Erode that Ram was an imaginary character and Ram Sethu was not man- made. He had said “some say there was a person over 17 lakh years ago. Do not touch the bridge (Ram Sethu) constructed by him. Who is this Ram? From which engineering college did he graduate? Is there any proof for this?”

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