People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
December 12, 2012
Idinthakarai & P. O. 627 104
Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu
Phone: 98656 83735; 98421 54073
Let’s Have a National Debate on the
Ambitious Nuclear Program
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) calls
for a national debate on the Indian government’s ambitious and aggressive nuclear
power program and for making it a poll issue in the upcoming Parliamentary
elections. If the Congress Party or the BJP or any other party for that matter manages
to convince the Indian voters about this full-scale nuclearization of the
country and obtains absolute majority in the next Parliament, we will call off
the ongoing struggle against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP)
immediately.
Since the incumbent Congress-led UPA government is accused of
obscene and rampant corruption and scandals, and have lost all moral authority
and legitimacy to rule the country, the people of India cannot and will not let
them take this important nuclearization decision about the future and wellbeing
of the second most populous country in the world. The whole of India knows how
the present Manmohan Singh government manipulates the Parliament and gets
through its devious policies and deceitful schemes. They played all kinds of
dirty games and dubious politics to get the Indo-US Nuclear Deal passed in the
Parliament. The Indian citizens have witnessed a much worse drama on the recent
vote on the FDI issue. The Congress-led government threatened and/or seduced
political parties and unscrupulous politicians such as M. Karunanidhi, Mulayam
Singh Yadav, Mayawati, Lalu Prasad Yadav and others with serious cases or
selective incentives to win their support for FDI. Now we hear that Walmart has
spent an exorbitant amount of money in India to manipulate the entire Parliamentary
processes.
Indian citizens simply do not and cannot trust these unprincipled,
immoral, corrupt and self-seeking “leaders” and their family-run parties to
decide all our fate, our progenies’ destiny, and our precious natural
resources. Most of the present-day “leaders”
are all sell-outs and they work for foreign governments, their agencies and
MNCs. These cancerous elements’ only motive in public life is self-aggrandizement,
self-perpetuation, and self-indulgence. Even if these old manipulative Machiavellis
lose power (and die), we will still be stuck with their equally bad and corrupt
sons and daughters. Nonetheless, let the people of India have a say in the
important decision of nuclearizing India.
After all, the nuclear energy program is not just about
generating electricity. When the government starts nuclear power plants all
along the Indian coast at Koodankulam, Kalpakkam, Kovvada, Pati Sonapur,
Haripur, Jaitapur, Tarapur, Mithi Virdi and so on, all these huge and foreign
power plants would be dumping hot and contaminated water and radioactive wastes
into the sea with disastrous impact on our sea, seafood, ground water, crops
and so forth. Our food security and nutrition security will be drastically
affected. As it is, some 42 percent of our children are born malnourished and with
severe deficiencies. If we lose the cheap and best fish food also, only the
politicians’ and bureaucrats’ children will have the physical health and mental
faculties to lead normal healthy life. The present-day slavery will be
perpetuated.
When the Indian elites build even more nuclear power plants
at Kaiga, Chutka, Banswada and Fatehabad and so on, most of the Indian citizens
will be exposed to dangerous radiation all over the country and we all will be
paying a heavy price for diseases and ill health. The government of India does
not take these hidden costs into account as our “leaders” are constantly working
for their money and their children’s power.
So, we make the following proposition. Ask the government of
India and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to share the following documents
on all the existing and upcoming nuclear projects:
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA),
Site Evaluation Report (SER),
Safety Analysis Report (SAR),
Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP),
Concerned Reactor’s Performance Report,
Liability Regimes and all other relevant information,
documents and details in English, Hindi and the local languages.
Let the whole country discuss these reports and information
and engage in a nation-wide debate about the exorbitant cost of nuclear energy,
the hidden costs such as food insecurity and diseases, nuclear safety, nuclear
waste management, decommissioning technology and costs, and the whole array of
related issues.
And then in the upcoming Parliament elections, let us ask the
Indian voters to decide on the full-fledged ambitious and aggressive nuclearization
of our country. If majority of them endorse the policy and vote overwhelmingly
for any party that supports this nuclear policy and projects, we, the People’s Movement
Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) will immediately withdraw our struggle against the
KKNPP project.
If the corrupt “leaders” of India have not sold the country to
the United States, Russia and France, let them take up this democratic offer
and work with us instead of sending discredited scientists, macho model boys and
subservient bureaucrats amidst us to convince the clear-headed citizens of
India.
The Struggle
Committee
The People’s
Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
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