Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in the Tirunelveli district, in Tamil Nadu, is hitting headlines regularly due to the controversies looming over its operation, which were suspended since two months. The reasons being natives, in large numbers were protesting against the KNPP. The protestors today gave a new angle to the recent uproar about the Mullai Periyar Dam. The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), which is spearheading a movement against the KNPP said today at the project site, that the MP dam controversy has been fuelled by the Congress to divert the KNPP protest, with view on the forth coming elections in Kerala.

"Dear Sisters and Brothers of Kerala, I have a strong feeling that the Hollywood film 'Dam 999' and the subsequent political hoopla over the Mulla Periyar Dam controversy is the Congress Party’s conspiracy to win the upcoming by-elections in Kerala and to divide the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on the KKNPP issue," said Dr S P Udaya Kumar, Coordinator of PMANE, in a open statement issued here today.

He said as the Tamil-Malayalee solidarity was taking shape so fast and so well on the KNPP issue, the Centre and its Intelligence agencies desperately wanted to abort it. If KNPP was stopped, all the planned Nuclear Power Projects all over India would be stopped and all nuclear agreements with the United States, Russia, France, Australia and so on will have to be rescinded.