No historical proof for existence of Lord Ram: DMK

SALEM: Breaking his silence on the controversy over the Centre's initial stand in the Supreme Court on the Sethusamudram project, DMK President M Karunanidhi has endorsed the first affidavit that there was no historical proof of the existence of Lord Ram or Ramsetu.
"There is no historical proof for the existence of Lord Ram or the bridge. AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa has filed a case against the demolition of so-called Ramsetu.The government will face the case," the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said late on Saturday night while laying the foundation for various projects.
DMK is the prime mover of the Sethusamudram project in the UPA government and parties in Tamil Nadu passionately argue for it.
Karunanidhi charged BJP and AIADMK with attempting to break the alliance between his party and PMK but said such attempts would not succeed as both the parties were "real Dravidian parties."
"PMK and DMK are Dravidian parties, which cannot allow these sort of stories and we will fight for the project till the end," Karunanidhi said.
AIADMK and BJP in their manifestos had said that if they came to power, they would complete the Sethusamudram project, he pointed out.
"But now they are opposing it", Karunanidhi said.