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Satyagraha In Idinthakarai On September 9

By People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy

07 September, 2012
Countercurrents.org

Our people have been struggling hard and nonviolently through democratic means for more than a year for the closure of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP). Although the “destructive six” parties such as the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (AIADMK), Communist Party of India (CPI), and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) are all working against the interests of the Tamil people, there are “supportive hundred” Tamil political parties and social movements who are genuinely interested in the welfare and well-being of the Tamil people.

The Congress party and the BJP are working overtime to prop up the economies of Russia, United States, France and other countries and create profit for all their MNCs. They take an anti-Indian stance on all issues here in India such as opening up the Indian retail market for FDI. They keep plundering the Indian people through heartless scandals and massive corruption.

Similarly, the CPI and the CPM do not consider our people as working class and are not ready to support us in our struggle. These parties opposed nuclear bomb and supported nuclear power. When the India-US nuclear deal was signed, they started opposing the nuclear power for the first time. Now they oppose the French-assisted Jaitapur project but still support the Russian-designed KKNPP. These parties are still wallowing in their erstwhile Russian infatuation even though Russia has become a capitalist country. It might take 50 more years for them to understand the complete ramifications of the nuclear issue.

The DMK has become one family’s party and is engaged all kinds of deception and trickery against the Tamil people through empty slogans and political verbiage. The ruling AIADMK tries to create the impression that they are working for the Tamil people but are actually functioning with a self-serving agenda. Even though the capacity factor of the Indian nuclear power plants is hardly 40 percent, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has been demanding 2,000 MW from the KKNPP. She has been demanding the expulsion of Sri Lankan soldiers and football players from India but is not dealing with the serious and life-oriented issues that jeopardize the Tamil people’s well-being, our natural resources and the futures.

The natural wealth of the Tamil people such as our hills, forests, rivers and seas are all systematically plundered by private profiteers, politicians and bureaucrats. The hot and radioactive effluents and liquid wastes that are discharged into the sea from the KKNPP and Kalpakkam nuclear plants will affect the coastal wealth, food security, nutrition, and the health of the future generations. The Tamil people’s fertile lands are being converted into real estate properties by the land mafia and our agriculture is being stifled systematically. A recent survey has found out that the groundwater all over Tamil Nadu has been badly polluted.

The “destructive six” political parties identified above are the sole reason for the bad shape the Tamil society is in. But still they hold sway over the Tamil society because the “supportive hundred” Tamil parties and movements are all divided and strife-torn.

We are requesting all the “supportive hundred” Tamil parties and movements to brush aside their differences and disagreements and join hands together to protect our people, our natural wealth and our future generations.

We demand that no fuel loading should take place at the KKNPP and the plant has to be converted into some other benign power project. And we are going to embark on a Satyagraha struggle on September 9, 2012, Sunday from Idinthakarai.

We request the “supportive hundred” Tamil parties and movements to take up this historic opportunity and fight together for the welfare of the Tamil society. They should also engage in constituency adjustments and face the upcoming Parliamentary elections together.

If these parties let the Tamil people down at this important juncture, the “destructive six” will come to power again and damage our society even more. We will carry an indelible blemish on all of us, and the future generations of the Tamil society will curse us.

So we request all the “supportive hundred” Tamil parties and movements to come rushing to Idinthakarai to save us, to join hands with each other, to give a new beginning to the Tamil society and to rescue us all from an impending disaster.

The Struggle Committee
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy

People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
Idinthakarai & P. O. 627 104
Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu
Phone: 98656 83735; 98421 54073




 

 


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