new delhi faced with the annoyance of supreme court aiadmk supremo j jayalalithaa on monday abandoned her plea to get ancient monument tag for ram setuhowever a bench headed by chief justice k g balakrishnan posted her pil which challenged the sethusamudram channel project that involved dredging of a part of ram setu and sought identification of an alternative route for the channel for hearing along with the other petitions pending before the court jayalalithaa has joined those who were arrayed against the sethusamudaram project a pet scheme of her political adversary tamil nadu chief minister m karunandidhi from the outsetthe court which has already stayed dredging of sethusamudaram till further orders questioned the late entry of jayalalithaa into the litigational fora seeking ancient monument status for ram setuthe bench wanted to know as to why she had never prior to the controversy over the sethusamudram project not represented to the authorities demanding ancient monument status for the setu described in holy text ramayana as the bridge built by lord rama and his monkey warriors to launch an attack on lanka the kingdom of ravana to rescue sitanobody ever demanded the ancient monument status for the ram setu prior to the controversy coming from you jayalalithaa it is surprising the bench said her counsel senior advocate k k venugopal acted swiftly to assuage the court urging it to delete the prayer however he said her petition annexed material that had never been put up before the sc and which could help proper adjudication of the issue