TIRUNELVELI: People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) coordinator S P Udayakumar said the police action was continuing in the coastal villages around Koodankulam. The fast-unto-death launched by Udayakumar, another functionary of PMANE M Pushparayan and 13 others, including seven women, at Idinthakarai against the KKNPP entered the 6th day on Saturday. Meanwhile, Udayakumar’s wife Meera Udayakumar, his father S Paramarthalingam and mother Ponmani, met him at the fast venue on Saturday. Udayakumar told Express that the police action was still continuing in the coastal villages. The police tried to arrest three persons at Koodankulam in the early hours of Saturday at their houses. Besides, the cops forced the fishermen at Amalinagar to go for fishing and threatened them that cases would be filed against them if they tried to ferry food items to Idinthakarai. He alleged that the police, who arrested Sathish, Vanni Arasu and Mugilan, were trying to fix them by charging that they had links with Naxalites. “We are not Maoists or anti-socials. Since September last year, we have been attending meetings convened by the collector and SP and have also met the Chief Minister twice. Treating us like terrorists was not right.”Though 15 of us are on hunger fast for the 6th day, the state and central governments had not attempted to talk with us. I am tired and down with stomach pain”, Udayakumar said. But Tirunelveli Range DIG V Varadaraju denied the charge that policemen went to the villages.
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