Congress leader Karan Singh bats for Sita’s statue in Ayodhya along with Lord Ram

Ravi S Singh
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 23

Former Sadr-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir and senior Congress leader Dr Karan Singh on Friday suggested to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to do justice to Sita, wife of Lord Ram, by installing her statute along with her husband in the proposed Ram Temple at Ayodhya.

In a letter to Adityanath, Singh said there seems to be a recent tendency to forget Sita altogether and concentrate only on Lord Ram.

In fact, this is his second letter to the UP chief minister after the previous one was not acknowledged.

“This will be adding another injustice to what this noble lady suffered in her own lifetime,” Singh said in his letter today.

“I do feel that at last justice should be done to Sita ji,” he added, and suggested that instead of constructing one very tall statue of Lord Ram, its height should be halved and instead two twin statues be made.

“After all these centuries, let Ayodhya at last do justice to the memory of this great and noble lady,” Singh further said.

Elaborating on the suffering undergone by Sita, Singh said almost immediately after her marriage with Lord Ram she went into exile along with him.

After enduring that for many years, she was abducted by Ravana and imprisoned in Sri Lanka.

At the end of the war, in which huge numbers of “vanaraas” (monkeys) and “rakshasas” ( demons) were killed she was obliged to undergo “agni pariksha” (examination  by fire).

Although she emerged unscathed from that ordeal, and returned to Ayodhya in triumph along with her husband, it was not long before due to malicious gossip she was once again sent into the forest even though she was pregnant.

It was only due to the blessings of Rishi Valmiki that she survived and gave birth to Luv and Kush from whom the Raghuvansha continues to the present day, Singh added.