The Centre should put on hold all nuclear power plants in the country as they lacked adequate safety measures, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, Brinda Karat, told journalists here on Saturday.
She said her party would support any agitation against nuclear power plants, such as the one going on in Tirunelveli against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant.
“At present, the plants do not have the required safety norms in place,” she said, pointing to problems faced by the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima in the aftermath of a strong earthquake.
To a question on the death sentence to three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Ms. Karat said that her party went by the law of the country. The Supreme Court had made it clear that death sentence should be given only in the rarest of rare cases. There were well-established legal procedures that had built-in provisions for appeal, she said.
On the speech of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in Parliament, she said that it took the Congress such a long time to come out with its opinion. The speech was yet another delaying tactic. It had no relevance when the country was debating the Lokpal Bill.
“It was for the government to respond and not the Congress party. It is only a shield for the government not to take action,” she said. It revealed the ‘ineptitude' of the government and ‘vacillation' of the Congress on the issue, she added.
Ms. Karat said that her party was not only for a strong Lokpal, but also for election reforms and a strong judicial accountability commission.
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