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Sterlite Copper is attempting to re-enter Thoothukudi nether the guise of a ‘Green Copper’ model, but specified proposals should beryllium blocked successful the archetypal stages itself, said Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) wide caput Vaiko successful Madurai connected Thursday (February 19, 2026).
Speaking to the media, helium said that the Vedanta radical had announced the caller connection claiming it would person a little c footprint. “Such a connection would make apprehensions again, and the nationalist whitethorn beryllium unfortunate to hazardous pollution,” helium charged.
The State authorities should nonstop the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) authorities not to entertain immoderate specified exertion and cull it forthright, Mr. Vaiko said, and appealed to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to instrumentality stern enactment successful the larger involvement of the public.
The MDMK, helium said, had struggled against the corp for implicit 2 decades, and this resulted successful the closure of the copper smelter portion successful the ‘pearl city’. “The enactment would basal by the radical and combat bony and nail against the industry,” helium asserted.
‘No request for conjugation govt.’
With the Tamil Nadu Assembly predetermination accelerated approaching, helium said the DMK-led beforehand would registry a landslide victory. “There would beryllium nary request for a conjugation government. The DMK volition signifier a authorities connected its own,” helium reiterated.
To a query connected Congress MP Manickam Tagore’s repeated insistence connected powerfulness sharing, Mr. Vaiko said a conjugation strategy would not suit the Tamil Nadu soil. The confederation led by the DMK was intact, helium said, while welcoming the DMDK into the bloc.
On the predominant arrests of fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, helium said the Union authorities had shown “scant respect for the lives of fishermen.” He added: “Political parties from Tamil Nadu had, respective times, taken up the substance with the Union government, urging it to powerfully condemn and interfere into the ‘illegal’ act. However, the Union authorities gave nary value to it. A dialog astatine the highest level unsocial would bring astir a solution.”
He further said the State authorities should registry cases against BJP functionaries, including its erstwhile State president K. Annamalai, for their misleading remarks implicit the decease of a 17-year-old miss successful Michealpatti, Thanjavur district. The CBI’s probe had shown that the decease had thing to bash with spiritual conversion, portion the BJP leaders claimed it to beryllium an effort to conversion, helium said.
In presumption of the election, the BJP leaders from New Delhi whitethorn travel to Tamil Nadu often and effort to woo the people. However, the voters present are intelligent and would not autumn prey to their sugar-coated words, helium said.
Poll fund
The Madurai MDMK portion caput Munusami and his squad presented ₹50 lakh to Mr. Vaiko arsenic their publication to the party’s predetermination fund. State leaders, territory secretaries from Madurai, Virudhunagar, Dindigul, and MLA Pudur Boominathan and others participated.
