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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Anti-nuclear plant NGO threatens to sue PM

Anti-nuclear plant NGO threatens to sue PM

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published Published on Feb 26, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 26, 2012
-The Times of India
 
Denying charges that their campaign against the Russian-aided Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project was being funded by United States-based groups, the People's Movement against Nuclear Energy convener S P Udayakumar on Saturday threatened legal action against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union minister of state in the PMO V Narayanasamy. 

The Union minister told TOI on Friday that the licences of three NGOs backing the anti-nuclear protests have been cancelled. 

He accused the NGOs, which yet remain unnamed, of diverting funds to fuel the anti-nuclear campaign. Narayanasamy said that foreign funds which should have been used for helping disabled and infirm communities were misused. 

The commissioning of the Rs 14,500 crore, 4,780MW Kudankulam project has been delayed due to the seven-month-old protests by fisherfolk and residents of several coastal hamlets in the Tirunelveli district. 

In a recent interview to the American journal 'Science', the PM said the atomic energy programme was being derailed by US-based NGOs whipping up a campaign against the Kudankulam project. 

Taking strong objection to the PM's remarks, the PMANE leader threatened to drag him to court. He said he would sue former TNCC president E V K S Elangovan for his allegations that he (Udayakumar) had received foreign funds and was convicted in a drug-peddling case abroad. 

Udayakumar denied he had any hand in the financial transactions of IDEA-India, a Tamil Nadu-based NGO. "The Union minister has responded to the legal notice sent by me earlier disapproving of foreign funds to the stir. He alleged that I have received funds from a Sweden-based organization called IDEA. I am only a member of their Reconciliation Resource Network. This is a group of experts who talk about reconciliation," the PMANE leader said. 

In his reply to the notice on Friday, a copy of which is available with TOI, Narayanasamy alleged that IDEA-India, with FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) registration has received payment from the IDEA headquarters and international IDEA affiliates to the tune of Rs 30.1 lakh between 2006 and 2011. 

Similarly, IDEA-India received from non-IDEA sources (overseas countries) in the same period a sum of Rs 5.54 crore. 

"Udayakumar and his wife Meena Udayakumar are trustees of SACCER, a registered NGO, which is registered with IDEA's Reconciliation Resource Network as its organization," said Narayanasamy in his reply to Udayakumar's notice. 

On Russian diplomat Alexander M Kadakin's comments on the Kudankulam stir and about foreign funding of NGOs associated with it, Udayakumar said it was unbecoming of a foreign ambassador to interfere in the country's internal affairs. 

"It is hurting that the PM and other leaders have not objected to the ambassador's interference," he said. 

US envoy to India Peter Burleigh said he would ask for a probe into the role of US-based NGOs aiding the stir. "I am not well aware of the matter and so do not feel confident to comment on it. We will have to find out the facts," he told reporters in Guwahati.

The Times of India, 26 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Anti-nuclear-plant-NGO-threatens-to-sue-PM/articleshow/12038939.cms


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