Make Jan 28 Delta stir a success: Stalin

In a letter addressed to the party workers in this regard, Stalin said the DMK was determined to stand in support of the farmers. Recalling the agreement signed during the previous DMK regime for methane exploration in Delta, Stalin said the MoU signed in their tenure had included environmental clearance and conduct of public hearing. “If the people had opposed then, the MoU would have get annulled, naturally,” Stalin said, wondering why a section of the media, which blew the issue out of proportion despite the works not being started at the end of the DMK tenure, of keeping calm now when the entire Delta region was being made a hydrocarbon zone.

Reiterating that Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami had shot a DO letter to the Prime Minister to secure news space, while the concerned Minister had written to the same Centre for doing away with public hearing for the project, Stalin said the hydrocarbon project must be dropped by the Centre and the state government should take legal steps in this regard.