Is Kudankulam Agitation funded by Foreign Agencies?

 

    Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, V. Narayanasamy has stated that the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) agitation was being funded by foreign agencies. That is a strange charge by the Minister who should not forget the fact that all the leaders of the Congress Party, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are taking their orders from a foreigner called Sonia Gandhi.

 

    The UPA Government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working for the benefit of foreigners and is ignoring the legitimate interests of the majority of Indians. Can Narayanasamy and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deny the fact that foreign companies have been helping to build the KKNPP reactors at a huge cost to the people of India?

 

    According to Narayanasamy, the protest against the location of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) was going on even after the distinguished scientist and former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam had certified that the KKNPP reactors with their safety features were the safest in the world.

 

    It is being claimed that the proposed nuclear power plant at Kudankulam will be completely safe. Even the location of the two Houses of Parliament at New Delhi has been proved to be unsafe after the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament on 13 December 2001. If the location of Kudankulam is so safe, why the Government of India does not shift the two Houses of Parliament to that place? All the Indian MPs could be made to feel completely safe at Kudankulam.

 

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TIRUNELVELI, November 12, 2011

 

PMO sees foreign hand

STAFF REPORTER

 

The Hindu .

 

V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, said on Saturday that the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNP) agitation was being funded by foreign agencies.

 

“We've already started investigation to unmask the foreign agencies actually funding the ongoing agitation against KKNPP even after the nuclear reactors' safety has been ensured by installing futuristic state-of-the-art safety features,” he told reporters here.

 

The country, which would be in need of 4.50 lakh MW power by 2020, was generating only 1.5 lakh MW. Hence, to achieve this goal, it was executing the nuclear power generation programmes, like the U.S., which was getting 20 per cent of its power from nuclear reactors.

 

At the same time, Mr. Narayanasamy said, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, which was constructing the reactors with Russian assistance, had incorporated sophisticated safety equipment in the reactors of KKNPP though it consumed considerable time and money.

 

The Minister said the protest was going on even after distinguished scientist and former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, after his personal inspection of the plant, had certified that the KKNPP reactors with its safety features were the safest in the world. “However, a group of people were misguiding the people, particularly the fishermen, with false propaganda against the KKNPP as they wanted to cripple its commissioning. Since we suspect the involvement of the foreign agencies in the ongoing protest, we've ordered for a comprehensive probe to unmask the foreign groups that fund those who organise the protest. This is not really a protest being orchestrated by the people,” he charged.

 

When asked to name the foreign agencies funding the protestors, the Minister said: “You know everything”.