Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy visited Tuticorin on Wednesday to hold a review meeting about the Covid situation in the districts. However, targeting the CM over the Sterlite encounter, DMK leaders were trending #GoBackEPS on Twitter seeking justice for the 13 people who died in the anti-Sterlite protests.
DMK Tuticorin MP Kanimozhi in her tweet said, “Family members of the Tuticorin firing victims are demanding government jobs as per their educational qualification and the Government is refusing to pay heed to their demands. Will the CM who is visiting Tuticorin today, accept their demands and order respectively?”
Kanimozhi also demanded that the state government should hold discussions with the expert committee and act immediately to remove the toxic wastes which are being stored at 12 different places as per the records of the Tamil Nadu pollution control board.
Similarly, DMK youth wing secretary Udayanidhi Stalin tweeted saying, “The people will never forgive you (EPS) for joining hands with the Central government and taking away the lives of 13 people and for acting that you came to know about it only after watching Television.”
Reacting to the developments, the Tamil Nadu CM squarely blamed DMK leader M.K. Stalin for granting permission for the second expansion of the Vedanta Sterlite Project in Tuticorin. The CM accused that if then industrial minister M.K. Stalin hadn’t permitted expansion, the entire controversy wouldn’t have arisen in the first place.