8216;UPA must disassociate from Karuna8217;s Ram remarks8217;

He charged the Centre with adopting double standards on the issue and encouraging 8220;blasphemy8221;.

8220;While it banned the Salman Rushdie8217;s 8216;Satanic Verses8217;, it was allowing Karunanidhi8217;s remarks hurting the Hindu sentiments,8221; he said.

Condemning the BJP office attack, he said, 8220;some ministers who had taken oath to protect the Constitution have indulged in the attack. We will not be cowed down by such threats8221;.

On the October 1 bandh called by DMK and its allies in Tamil Nadu, he wondered how a ruling party could do that, particularly when the Supreme Court and various High Courts had banned bandhs.

He said the BJP was not against the Sethusamudram project but against the demolition of Ram Sethu.

On Union Shipping Minister T R Baalu8217;s remarks that the Centre would not change the alignment of the Sethu project, he said, 8220;If they don8217;t change it, people will change them8221;.

Singh recalled that BJP had disassociated itself from Ram Vilas Vendanti8217;s alleged call to 8220;behead Karunanidhi8221;.

Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu was also present when Rajnath Singh visited the BJP office.