Row after PM Modi unveils Kalam statue with Gita

Late President A P J Abdul Kalam’s grandnephew A P J M Sheik Saleem sought to end an issue regarding the Bhagavad Gita placed by Kalam’s statue at his memorial at Peikarumbu in Rameswaram by placing the Quran and Bible beside the statue on Sunday.
Abdul Kalam’s memorial was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on July 27 to rejoice his lifestyles, including his cultural pursuits.

One of the statues that have been stored underneath covers until the PM Modi unveiled it, depicts the former president playing the veena, with a sculpted ‘Bhagavad Gita’ on a bookrest beside him.On Saturday, MDMK leader Vaiko requested if the Bhagawat Gita changed into placed beside the statue “with an ulterior cause”, and if the Modi government concept that there was no person to question it.

“Is the Gita above the Thirukkural, the simplest ebook that’s qualified to be placed in the memorial?” he stated.
DRDO officials had not sculpted the Bhagavad Gita close to the statue with any (sick) intention.” They stated they would also region a copy of Tamil treatise Thirukkural close to the statue quickly.
They stated Kalam became a frontrunner to all Indians and nobody need to are seeking to politicise the problem.