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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Anti-nuke protests enter 100th day

Anti-nuke protests enter 100th day

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published Published on Nov 23, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 23, 2011
-The Times of India
 
The anti-nuclear protests by the largely illiterate fishermen and women from coastal hamlets that has stalled the commissioning of the multi-crore nuclear plant at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district enters the 100th day on Thursday.

The protests that begun on August 16 in Idinthakarai, also a coastal hamlet with dusty roads and thatched houses adjoining Kudankulam, has been a success for the agitators in the sense that they had managed to get thestate government pass a resolution in the Cabinet in favour of the local community and stalled the work in the plant.

There were setbacks too, for instance, like the cases booked under severe charges on the protesters. But the larger difficulty for the agitating villagers were in the form of financial insecurity as they have to lose their livelihood albeit voluntarily, for the cause of staging the protest.

"We feel that we have won the confidence of the state government in the last 100 days. There is vigour among villagers to see that the plant is shut down. But on the flip side we could not win the empathy of the Centre. There is no clarity on the part of the Central panel. We suspect that the panel lacks honesty," charged M Pushparayan, convener of Coastal People's Federation. The agitators are also angry at being termed anti-national by some quarters.

The protests at Idinthakarai began on August 16, a day after the Kudankulam panchayat passed a resolution demanding to close the plant during the gram sabha meeting. There was a break in the protests on September 21 after chief minister J Jayalalithaa announced that she would pass a resolution pressing the Centre to suspend works at the nuclear plant till the fears of people are allayed. But the protests resumed on October 9 after the anti-nuclear activists alleged that the Centre failed to respond to the state Cabinet's resolution.

On October 13 and 14, the agitating villagers besieged the plant and prevented scientists, engineers and other staff from entering the site. Till date, the employees of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project are prevented from entering the site. Even as Union minister of state Narayanasamy raised doubts over the source of funds for the prolonged protests, angry activists retorted saying that it was money collected from fishermen that helps them continue the protest.

To mark the 100th day, a blood donation camp as well as an inter-religious prayer has been organised.

"We will stick to non-violent method of protest till we succeed in shutting down the plant. The government should respect our right to dissent and should not adopt crooked ways to scuttle our protests," he demanded.


The Times of India, 24 November, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Anti-nuke-protests-enter-100th-day/articleshow/10849543.cms


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