Kudankulam: protestors want uranium from site gone by year end

Anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant protestors today criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's declaration that the project would be operationalised in a few weeks and set December 31 as the deadline for the Centre to eliminate the uranium kept in the plant or else face "intensified agitation".

At an emergency assembly convened in the light of Singh's announcement yesterday in Moscow that the first unit of the plant would be operationalised in weeks, a declaration was passed by the protestors who demand 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 are extremely condemnable. We demand that the Centre take the uranium away from the site before December 31 or else we will deepen our protests further from January 1. We speculate whether the PM is working for us (Indians) or for foreign companies," M Pushparayan, a representative of the protestors in the state government-appointed board to hold talks with the Central panel over the issue, said.