Lord Ram an imaginary character: Karunanidhi

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Erode: Charging communal forces with attempts to stop the work on the Sethusamudram project by invoking the name of Lord Ram, DMK patriarch and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said Ram was an imaginary character and Ram Sethu (Adam's Bridge) was man-made.
'Some say there was a person over 17 lakh years ago. His name was Ram. Do not touch the bridge (Ram Sethu) constructed by him. Who is this Ram? From which engineering college he graduated? Is there any proof for this?' Karunanidhi, a known atheist, asked at a public meeting.

Addressing the meeting here late on Sunday night on the occasion of DMK founder C N Annadurai's 99th birth anniversary he said people of Tamil Nadu had lot of faith in religious matters and some thought that their emotions could be easily whipped up by quoting the name of Ram.

If the Sethusamudram project was completed, Sri Lanka might face economic difficulties and Tamil Nadu would prosper, he said adding some Sri Lankans might have whispered to some here that Tamil Nadu should never become prosperous.

'Only to prevent the good scheme, they got hold of the name of a person who was supposed to have lived 17 lakh years ago', he said.

He claimed that the opposition to the project was part of a large conspiracy by 'some jackals, who wanted to destroy the Dravidian movement'.