Anti-N activists booked for blast near Kudankulam unit

Bomb blast at Tsunami Colony, 15 km from Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant which claimed six lives is seen by police as an attempt by the anti-nuclear brigade to establish its hold and influence over the region as more and more villagers shy away from the agitation against the nuclear power station.

“With the State Government unleashing a series of development and welfare activities at Kudankulam, the agitation led by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy has lost its sting. We have enough evidence to prove that the leaders of the agitation are out to prove that

they have not lost their command and influence in the region,” a top police official who did not want his name to be quoted, told The Pioneer.

The Tirunelveli Police has registered a case against SP Udaya Kumar, the PMANE leader, his associates Pushparayan and Mukilan under different sections of the IPC and the Explosives Substances Act in connection with Tuesday’s bomb explosion. The blast occurred when a country bomb was being assembled in one of the huts in the Tsunami Colony. None of the PMANE volunteers were available for comments. But they sent messages through their associates that the explosion was the handiwork of the police.

The bomb blast comes exactly after one year of the planned attack on police by the PMANE. K Ramanujam, the director general of police had told in November last year that the PMANE volunteers had planned to attack the KNPP. “It was the intervention of police which prevented them from coming near the nuclear plant,” Ramanujam had told reporters.

He said the police came under attack by the marauding volunteers. “Nets were laid on the sand along the Kudankulam seashore to trap the police,” the DGP had said then.

Source : Daily Pioneer