http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Burn-Periyars-Ramayana/233305/
'Burn Periyar's Ramayana' Express news service Posted online: Sunday , October 28, 2007 Lucknow, October 27 Flaying the Mayawati Government for its inability to ban Dalit leader Periyar's True Ramayan, BJP national president Rajnath Singh today asked party workers "to go to any extent to stop its distribution". "Ensure that not even a single copy of the book is sold in the state. Burn its copies, protest against it," Singh said while addressing the executive meeting of BJP's state unit here. Referring the book as "derogatory to Ram", Singh alleged that BSP is distributing the copies of the book among its party workers. "And she talks about social harmony," he said, referring to Chief Minister Mayawati. Recently, Mayawati virtually had snatched a major political issue from BJP by "postponing" her plans to install a statue of Periyar in the state capital. State BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi had on last Tuesday threatened to launch an agitation to stop the BSP government from installing the statue of Periyar, "who had abused the Hindu gods", anywhere in the state. Singh also appealed to his party workers to join the Ram Setu agitation being led by the Ram Setu Raksha Manch. "Though the BJP is not directly leading the agitation, party workers should involve themselves in the issue through the Manch," he said. He added, "The public has seen the functioning of both the BSP and the SP. Both worked with vendetta and were busy with ordering transfers. None thought of development."
