Kudankulam protests withdrawn on Jayalalithaa’s assurance

21 Sep 2011 Evaluate

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has assured the leaders of the Kudankulam protests that she will pass a resolution in cabinet against the project and take up the issue with Prime Minister, following which the protestors have withdrawn there 11-day fast.

'Tomorrow a cabinet meeting will be called to stop the project. We are withdrawing the fast,' said S P Udayakumar, who was a member of the delegation that met Jayalalithaa. Despite assurances that Russian reactors at the site are safe and can safely survive calamities such as earthquakes and tsunamis, the villagers have been demanding the project to install 1,000 MW nuclear plants at Kudankulam be scrapped.

The recent surge in protests started on September 11 when officials announced that power generation will start soon from a 1,000 MW unit in December and conducted an evacuation drill.

Jayalalithaa too assured the protestors in the beginning that project is safe and can survive natural calamities, later decided to support them. Earlier, union minister of state - V Narayanaswamy, met the protesters and officials to take stock of the situation and report back to the Prime Minister. 'As far as the Centre is concerned, people's safety is the priority. Power production is secondary,' Narayanasamy said at Idinthakarai where over 120 villagers have been on an indefinite fast.

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