Karunanidhi to Lanka: Don't rake up Kudankulam issue

10MK-ASSEMBLY.jpg.crop_display.jpg

DMK president M Karunanidhi slammed Sri Lanka on Tuesday for raking up the Koodankulam nuclear power project issue.

“The Koodankulam project was not something new, but was planned and started many years ago. The work on the project is progressing and an attempt is being made to rake up the issue now,” he said.

The DMK leader was responding to a question on Sri Lankan power and energy minister Champika Ranawaka, expressing concern over the possible radiation from India’s nuclear power plant, located in southern region. (Koodankulam nuclear plant, located on India’s southern coast, is about 250 km from Lanka’s northwest coastal town of Mannar).

Sri Lanka respected India’s right to have nuclear power stations, “but our concerns are on the possible radiation effects they could have on Sri Lanka. We have already written a letter, “ the minister had said.
Asked what should be India’s stand, Mr Karunanidhi said, “Indian government will do what is required.”

He was talking to reporters in the Assembly lobby after signing the attendance register to keep his membership alive. He had been boycotting the assembly after the AIADMK came to power in May last and sign the register once in six months to keep his membership alive.

The DMK leader, who has been confined to wheelchair after he underwent a spine surgery, said he could not attend the session as there was no proper seating facility for him to attend the session.
“ We will think about it when they make the seating facility,” he said when asked whether he would attend the session if he was provided a proper seat.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/141857" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: &lt;a&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;code&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;dt&gt; &lt;dd&gt;</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-6fe40f99b5e656d418cb4282956b3ab5" value="form-6fe40f99b5e656d418cb4282956b3ab5" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="80041909" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.