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DAM-L LS: Sangh Parivar to mobilize against Tehri Dam (fwd)

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Source: Rediffusion.com, July 18, 2000

Sangh Parivar to intensify stir against Tehri Dam: PTI

                 The Sangh Parivar Tuesday intensified its agitation against the
                 Tehri dam on river Ganga with Bharatiya Janata Party MP
                 Swami Chinmayananda announcing a "Haridwar to Delhi" 
march by Hindu
                 saints from July 26 to "pressurise" the Centre to 
scrap the controversial
                 project.

                 The Vishwa Hindu Parishad- sponsored 'Ganga Jan 
Jagran Yatra' (Ganga
                 awareness march) would arrive in Delhi on July 31 and submit a
                 memorandum to President K R Narayanan and 
Vice-President Krishan Kant
                 on August 1 demanding that work on the project be 
stopped forthwith,
                 Swami Chinmayananda said in New Delhi.

                 Describing the Ganga as the country's "life line", 
Chinmayananda claimed that
                 the construction of the dam would stop the water flow 
of the river considered
                 holy by millions of Hindus, deprive it of its 
self-purification qualities and make
                 the quake-prone area more vulnerable to devastation.

                 Denying that the stir was only "symbolic" as BJP-led 
governments were in
                 power both at the Centre and Uttar Pradesh, he said, 
"I was in the forefront
                 of Ram Janamabhoomi movement and you know what happened. The
                 government's reaction will depend on our action," he said.

                 VHP leader Ashok Singhal had last week written to the 
Centre demanding
                 that work on the dam be stopped forthwith.

                 Chinmayananda suggested power generation through a 
run of the river
                 scheme in place of the Tehri project.

                 Denying any 'political motive' behind the movement or 
any rift among the
                 saints on the issue, He claimed that he had all along 
supported Sunder Lal
                 Bahuguna's opposition to the project.

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