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On the tenth day of the anti-nuclear protests at Kudankulam on Thursday, the leaders of the rainbow organizations demanded scrapping of the nuclear plant in the village with the hope that the newly elected local body representatives will support their cause.
AIADMK had scored an emphatic win last week in the local body elections in Tamil Nadu. The nuclear plant at Kudankulam was an election issue across Kanyakumari, Nagercoil and Tirunelveli districts. The polls have also thrown up a number of independent candidates in panchayats like Idinthakarai, where the protests are being staged, and at Kudankulam.
Convener of the Coastal People’s Federation M Pushparayan, which is one of the organizations fighting for closure of the Indo-Russian joint venture Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, said “We are speaking to the newly-elected local body representatives and they are in support of our demand,”
The Centre had set up a 15-member expert committee to study the issue, but protest leaders say they want a halt to the work at the plant before they can hold discussions with the expert committee.
Roughly 500 people are taking turns each day for the relay fast at Idinthikarai village, close to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Pushparayan said villagers from Koottapanai and Kuttuthalai were on fast on Thursday. Among the prominent persons visiting the site on Thursday was the Church of South India’s bishop for Tuticorin, JAD Jebachandran.
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