THRISSUR: There should be more chanting of ‘Jai Sri Ram’ considering the widespread “demonic actions” in the country, DGP-under-suspension Jacob Thomas said here on Thursday. Addressing a function held as part of the Ramayana Fest, Thomas termed Ram as the embodiment of truthfulness, righteousness, justice and moral ethics.

Incidents like the fatal lynching of tribesman Madhu at Attappadi in Kerala ’s Palakkad district, and the murder of a political activist at Chavakkad , indicated the need for upholding the values that Ram represented, he said.

“We cannot become a country where the chanting of Jai Sri Ram is proscribed. It is high time that we had more chants of Jai Sri Ram,” Thomas said before concluding his speech with the chant.

The director general of police who was suspended on charges of corruption in procurement of cutter suction dredger when he was the director of ports during 2010-11, has obtained an order from the Central Administrative Tribunal, directing the state government to reinstate him forthwith.

