Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), March 19 (IANS) The Shiv Sena on Thursday renewed its protests against the 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP), coming up with French collaboration in the district here.
Around one thousand activists led by party MP Vinayak Raut took out a protest march to the JNPP, but were stopped midway by the police.
The protests are being viewed as another weapon to target the ruling ally at the Centre and in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party, a week after Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray demanded that the power plant be shifted to Gujarat.
"We have no objections to the Jaitapur project...But we strongly object to it coming up in Ratnagiri and Konkan region...Let the BJP shift it to Gujarat if they want," Raut told mediapersons as he and other activists were bundled off in police vans for detention this afternoon.
Local legislators Rajan Salvi and Uday Samant contended that the project is contrary to the interests of the people of Konkan region and the party would not allow it to come up here at any cost.
Earlier Thackeray had said that the project would 'destroy' the ecology and livelihood of the people of Konkan and the party would not permit it, but would not oppose it if it was shifted to Gujarat.
Besides the Shiv Sena, several local organisations of farmers, fishermen, anti-nuclear activists and NGOs have protested against the JNPP both in Ratnagiri and in New Delhi.
The JNPP, with six units of 1650 MW each and slated to become the biggest in the world in terms of net electrical power rating, is coming up in Madhban village in collaboration with French company Areva SA.
A new chapter has been added to Indian cricket history. In the second Test match played at Edgbas
Chandrayaan-3: ISRO gets big success, Chandrayaan-3's cryogenic engine test successful
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has achieved great success under its Moon Mission Chand
These days there is a discussion in the country about Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodi Yatra, which is
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson and minister Naw
Xiaomi restless due to ban on app in India
Xiaomi's MI community has been banned by the Indian government at a time when it was going throug
Reliance Jio's 'Super Speed' plan, 10 Gb data at 1 Gbps speed
new Delhi
Reliance Jio has emerged as the largest telecom company in the country in a ver
Rafale thundering in the mountains of Himachal at night, preparing to answer to China in Ladakh
The most modern and deadly Rafale fighter jets that have recently arrived in India have started r
There is a lot of discussion these days about the recent US tour of the popular British music ban
Delhi Police clashed late on Wednesday night with wrestlers sitting on a dharna over the arrest o
PM Modi post-budget webinar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing a post-budget (post-budge
