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India’s Prime Minister working for foreign nuclear companies, not for the people?

We wonder whether the PM is working for us (Indians) or for foreign companies,”

Udayakumar, Co-ordinator of the People’s Movement of Nuclear Energy, spearheading the protests, said the PM’s remarks indicated that work was going on “secretly” at the site. “This is against Tamil Nadu assembly resolution demanding a halt to the work at the plant till the people’s fears are allayed,” he said.

Kudankulam: protestors want uranium from site gone by year end DNA, Dec 17, 2011,  Anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant protestors today criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s announcement that the project would be operationalised in a few weeks and set December 31 as the deadline for the Centre to remove the uranium kept in the plant or else face “intensified agitation”.
At an emergency meeting convened in the light of Singh’s announcement
yesterday in Moscow that the first unit of the plant would be
operationalised in weeks, a resolution was passed by the protestors
who demanded that the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
(NPCIL) remove the fuel kept in the KNPP campus by December 31.

“The Prime Minister’s comments is highly condemnable. We demand that
the Centre take the uranium away from the site before December 31 or
else we will intensify our protests further from January 1. We wonder
whether the PM is working for us (Indians) or for foreign companies,”
M Pushparayan, a representative of the protestors in the state
government-appointed committee to hold talks with the Central panel
over the issue, said.

The protesters will also organise a rally tomorrow criticising
government’s comments. “We are organising a rally from the Koodankulam
site to Radhapuram tomorrow to condemn Indian and Russian governments
(on the issue). Indian government has gone back on its words,” he
said.

Udayakumar, Co-ordinator of the People’s Movement of Nuclear Energy,
spearheading the protests, said the PM’s remarks indicated that work
was going on “secretly” at the site. “This is against Tamil Nadu
assembly resolution demanding a halt to the work at the plant till the
people’s fears are allayed,” he said.

Another resolution passed by the meeting, which was attended by 21
leaders of the movement, including Udayakumar, said protestors would
“seige” the KNPP site on the day the project would be commissioned so
that no one can enter its
campus….http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_kudankulam-protestors-want-uranium-from-site-gone-by-year-end_1627068

December 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, opposition to nuclear