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Gujarat villagers vow to oppose Bhavnagar
nuclear plant
Friday May 27, 2011 11:40:51 PM,
IANS
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Jaspara
(Gujarat): Village council members of over 50 coastal
villages in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district Friday took a pledge to
oppose the proposed 6,000 MW nuclear power project at Mithi Virdi,
saying they would not allow the government to acquire their
fertile lands.
Cutting across party lines, leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata
Party, its breakaway group the Maha Gujarat Janata Party, the
Congress and several Gandhian organisations addressed a public
meeting and witnessed the villagers take a pledge not to acquiesce
to the government's offer to buy their lands, however lucrative
the compensation offer may be.
"Mother earth has been sustaining us for generations in the past,
present and will continue to do so in future by giving us cereal,
vegetables and a variety of fruits like mango, chikoo, coconut,
cashewnut and berries. How can we ever think of selling her? Even
if we accept a few crore of rupees for the land, we will end up
frittering it away," said Kadviben from Mahuva.
The resolve to fight till the last against land acquisition by the
government or private companies for industrialization received a
boost from anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who on a recent
visit to Gujarat said a nation-wide campaign against land
acquisition for industrialisation was the next move he would like
to undertake.
Former state finance minister Sanat Mehta challenged the
contention of the Nuclear Power Corporation that nuclear power was
safest source of energy. "If it is so, why don't they set up the
n-plant in Delhi or Gandhinagar?"
Former state home minister and MJP president Gordhan Zadaphia, who
has been camping in Mithi Virdi, the site of the proposed plant,
for the last four months to mobilise the people, said: "It is a
spontaneous people's movement which cannot be crushed by either
the central or the state government, come what may."
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