V Narayanaswamy said the PM’s comment that the anti-nuclear lobbyists in Kudankulam were funded by various foreign organisations is based on ‘solid evidence’.
Leaders of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) spearheading the agitation against the 1000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant are in for major trouble following their statement that they would sue the prime minister for his interview in the magazine Science.
V Narayanaswamy, union minister for science and technology who is also minister-in-charge of the prime minister’s office told DNA that the prime minister’s comment that the anti-nuclear lobbyists in Kudankulam were funded by various foreign organisations is based on ‘solid evidence’.
“The Union government has collected all evidence and documents to prove that the PMANE activists were getting funds and financial assistance from various Non-Governmental Organisations. We will make it known to the people all details about the donors and the beneficiaries. The prime minister of the country will not make a statement like that unless he has all the evidence in front of his table,” said the minister.
PMANE leader SP Udayakumar had told reporters on Saturday that he would sue the prime minister for his remarks that the agitation was funded by the United States and some Scandinavian countries. Earlier he had sent a legal notice to union minister Narayanaswamy who had charged that the PMANE leader had received Rs1.5 crore from foreign NGOs for the anti-nuclear agitation in Kudankulam. According to Udayakumar, the union minister had retracted the remarks he made earlier.
But Narayanaswamy denied Udayakumar’s statement. “I have not retracted from my statement. I wrote to him that we have enough proof of him receiving funds from various NGOs based in Europe and USA. We are also in possession of the details about his bank accounts and dealings in foreign countries,” said the minister who added that Udayakumar was trying to blackmail people. “You wait for some more time. We will definitely release the names of the organisations and the transactions PMANE had with them,” he said.
Intelligence agencies (both state and central) had been pointing out the role played by various religious and social organisations from day one of the Kudankulam agitation. Though Narayanaswamy had alleged that both PMANE and the Church were getting funds for the agitation, the Church has not reacted to the statement of the minister.
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