TIRUNELVELI: The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) will resume its indefinite hunger strike at Idinthakarai from May 1. Informing this, PMANE functionary Pushparayan said that the district administration had not kept its word on releasing all the protestors from prisons and withdrawing all the cases foisted on them, including sedition charges. This apart, the administration also promised to constitute an independent national committee to study various issues concerning the N-plant and to conduct disaster management and evacuation exercises for the people living within 30 km radius of the KKNPP, besides sharing a copy of the secret IGA between the governments of India and Russia in 2008 on liability and divulging information about the KKNPP nuclear waste and its management. “All these were promised when we concluded our earlier hunger strike on March 27. However, Mugilan and Sathish are still languishing in prison and more cases are said to have been filed against them. Even those who have been released on bail are being made to sign every day at distant police stations like notorious criminals and are prevented from going to work,” he said. He alleged that the government authorities and the KKNPP officials, in connivance with the local panchayat presidents, had falsified records to make it appear that disaster management exercises had been completed in those panchayats. “The KKNPP authorities must present a White Paper on the total cost of the project and explain how much public money has been spent on all the recent visits of Russians and other PR exercises,” he added.
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