Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project Struggle Committee has termed Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s promise on withdrawal of cases filed against the anti-nukes “nothing but an attempt to cheat the protesting people”. In a statement, R.S. Mugilan, a key member of the committee, said a team of anti-nukes met DMK president M. Karunanidhi and party treasurer M.K. Stalin in 2014 to apprise them of “serious technical issues in the KKNPP and the substandard materials used for constructing the reactors.”
The DMK chief assured the team members that party MPs, led by his daughter and Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi, would meet the Prime Minster and raise this issue with him. Subsequently, the committee members met Ms. Kanimozhi in Delhi to explain all issues pertaining to the upcoming nuclear park and the cases registered against the protestors. “The DMK, after maintaining a stoic silence for more than 18 months, has now promised in its manifesto that all pending cases against anti-KKNPP protestors would be withdrawn. It’s nothing but an attempt by the DMK to cheat the anti-KKNPP protestors. The DMK, which promised that it would oppose the KKNPP in its manifesto for the Assembly polls in 1989, on coming to power tried to crush the anti-nuke agitation at Kanyakumari with the help of police who fired at the protestors,” Mr. Mugilan said.
