With a view to strengthening its agitation against Sethusamudram Shipping Canal project the Vishwa Hindu Parishad will organise a two-day national meeting of saints to press the Centre to announce Ram Sethu a national heritage of historical importance. VHP president Shri Ashok Singhal informed in Chennai on May 22 that the meeting, to be held on June 15 and 16 at Haridwar, would also decide on a ?massive agitation? involving 50,000 people, in support of the Ram Sethu movement. ?The belief over Ram Sethu is centuries-old and has followers not only in India, but all across South East Asia, including Cambodia and Indonesia, among others. Followers of Lord Ram in these countries revere him as a historical figure,? he said.
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