[Reader-list] Citizens’ Statement Against Prime Minister’s Malicious Comment on Koodankulam Struggle

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*Citizens’ Statement  Against Prime Minister’s Malicious Comment on
Koodankulam Struggle*

*February 27, 2012*





Who is under the foreign hand?


We strongly deplore the PM’s recent statement that the people’s struggle
against Koodankulam nuclear power plant is instigated by foreign agencies
and funds. We cannot accept our PM to stoop to such low levels.


This allegation is a clear hint from him that the Indian people who could
think on their own to elect the Congress-led UPA in the last general
election, have suddenly lost the capacity to think ‘correctly about their
safety and energy security. Eminent Indian intellectuals like historian
Romila Thapar, economist Amit Bhaduri, diplomat Nirupam Sen, scientist PM
BHargava, and the Indian Institute of Science director P.Balaram have
strongly opposed this nuclearisation of India. They surely represent the
‘thinking component’ of India that Dr. Singh cited.


In reality, it is the Manmohan Singh-led government that is pushing the
interests of foreign corporate from Russia, USA and France etc. by giving
blanket allocation of Indian territories to them for setting up dangerous
nuclear power parks. Similar was the case with the Indo-US nuclear deal,
when the government repeatedly tried to bypass the Parliament under
pressure from these ‘foreign hand’.


Let Indians not lose their hard-earned freedom of independent thoughts and
expression to this sold-out government, and condemn the very people who
give them the credibility to govern.


In the light of the worldwide shift in public opinion and government
policies against nuclear energy, it is only China and India that have
significant expansion plans. At the very least it is expected in the light
of this global reality that the Indian government which claims to be
democratic should establish a complete moratorium on the further
development of nuclear energy. It must encourage the widest possible debate
on nuclear energy and show respect for the growing voices of democratic
dissent, instead of resorting to the cheapest forms of chauvinism and
maligning its own people.



Justice BG Kolse-Patil, Mumbai

Prashant Bhushan, New Delhi

PM Bhargava, Scientist, Hyderabad

Admiral L. Ramdas, Alibag

Lalita Ramdas, Alibag

Meher Engineer, Kolkata

Rohan D’Souza, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Asit Das, Researcher and Activist, New Delhi

P K Sundaram, Researcher, New Delhi

Sunil, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, MP

Vaishali Patil, Activist, Konkan (Maharashtra)

Praful Bidwai, Journalist, New Delhi

Achin Vanaik, New Delhi

Sumit Chakravarthy, Editor, Mainstream Weekly

Anil Chaudhary, Indian National Social Action Forum (INSAF)

Neeraj Jain, Lokayat, Pune

Soumya Dutta, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha

Nagraj Adve, Delhi Platform, New Delhi

Vijayan MJ, Delhi Forum, New Delhi

Vinuta Gopal, Greenpeace India, Bangalore

Karuna Raina, Greenpeace India, New Delhi

Bauddhaditya, Delhi University

Priyanka Singh, Samata, New Delhi

Yashwir Arya, Azadi Bachao Andolan,

Harsh Kapoor, South Asia Citizen’s Web

Rajendra Sharma, Hisar, Haryana

Ankur Jaisawal, Journalist, New Delhi

Joe Athilay, New Delhi

Arun Bidani, Delhi Platform, New Delhi

Bhupendra Singh Raut, NAPM

Amit Tharayath Vergese, Delhi Forum,New Delhi

Seela M Mahapatra, Delhi Solidarity Group, New Delhi

Tarini Manchanda, New Delhi








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