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The Congress connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) accused the Union authorities of pushing done the “ecologically disastrous” Great Nicobar Island infrastructure task contempt ineligible challenges and wide nonrecreational objections, alleging that the Narendra Modi-led dispensation remained “indifferent” to biology and tribal concerns.
Congress wide caput in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh shared The Hindu quality study connected X, which cited members of the Tribal Council successful Little and Great Nicobar alleging that the territory medication was pressuring them to “surrender their ancestral land” for the project.
“Yet different illustration of however the ecologically disastrous Great Nicobar task is being bulldozed through. Petitions are besides being heard successful the Calcutta High Court and the National Green Tribunal. Professionals person voiced their concerns. But thing is making a quality to an indifferent Modi government,” Mr. Ramesh said.
Responding to allegations of coercion of tribal communities, the erstwhile Environment Minister said, “This is unacceptable and shows however the Great Nicobar task is being bulldozed through. It is an ecological disaster.”
He noted that helium had repeatedly raised concerns successful a bid of letters to the Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has besides criticised the task successful an sentiment piece successful The Hindu, describing it arsenic a “planned misadventure” that poses an existential menace to indigenous communities and makes a “mockery of each ineligible and deliberative processes”.
The Union government, however, had defended the project, with Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav stating that each statutory clearances were successful spot and that the inaugural was captious for nationalist development.
