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After waging a protracted anti-nuke struggle, noted activist S p udayakumar, and another frontrunner of the People's Movement against Nuclear Energy, M P Jesuraj are set to take the political plunge on Friday as Aam Admi Party candidates.

Justice M Sathyanarayanan, before whom the matter came up for admission on Tuesday, ordered notice to the Union home ministry.

The Kudankulam nuclear power project is a 'stillborn child' and it may never be commissioned to produce electricity, S p udayakumar, convenor of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PAMANE), has said.

wo days after anti-nuclear activist S p udayakumar withdrew his fast, foreign contribution regulation (FCR) officials from the Union home ministry raided his house at Nagercoil, on Thursday.

Anti-nuclear activist S p udayakumar on Saturday announced his resignation from the Aam Aadmi Party because he felt that the party high command did not pay attention to the problems of the people in south Tamil Nadu.

Anti-nuclear activist and PMANE (People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy) convenor S p udayakumar has announced that he has quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which he had joined in March this year.

Anti-nuclear activist and PMANE (People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy) convenor S p udayakumar has announced that he has quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which he had joined in March this year.

The Madras high court has temporarily suspended the lookout notice issued against activist S p udayakumar, and permitted him to travel to Turkey to attend a conference in May.

The Madras high court has refused to order police action against the anti-nuclear power plant activists in Kudankulam, but said it was the duty of the state government to maintain law and order in the region.

The regional passport officer of Madurai has ordered anti-nuke activist S p udayakumar to surrender his passport within 15 days.

Anti-nuclear protesters observing an indefinite hunger strike at Idinthakarai withdrew the fast on Monday.

The Congress party has braced up to hit back at the demonstrators protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP).

Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday remained non-committal in a brief meeting with anti-nuclear activists on the Kudankulam project. Members of the People’s Movement against Nuclear Energy emerged from the meeting and reiterated their determination to continue the protests.

Udayakumar will contest from his home constituency, Kanyakumari.

Taking a cue from the jal satyagraha offered by villagers protesting dams on the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh, people opposing the Kudankulam nuclear plant entered the sea and stood in water at Idinthakarai on Thursday.

Activist S p udayakumar, Bishop of the Lourdes Matha Church in Idinthakarai, former chief minister of Kerala V S Achuthanandan and the activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal have been impleaded in a plea seeking action against the anti-nuke protestors.

The transition from environmental activism to politics may be rocky , but never uneventful. After an unsuccessful stint in the Aam Aadmi Party and his defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, S p udayakumar who spearheaded the protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power project, has launched a political party of his own, Pachai Tamilagam (Green Tamil Nadu).

The Supreme Court's observation that it would not hesitate to stop commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project if safety mechanisms were not put in place, has pumped in fresh oxygen to the anti-nuclear protests which are progressing with renewed vigour after the police crackdown.

Staff of the Life Insurance Corporation of India in Madurai use 'tappattam' - a predominant percussion instrument played during many occasions in the southern region, as a powerful medium to communicate with the public.

As tension simmered, security forces today sealed almost the entire town housing the atomic power plant with anti-nuclear movement leader S p udayakumar remaining elusive after a somersault on his surrender offer.

In a significant climbdown, anti-nuclear activist S p udayakumar, who is spearheading the protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, and others on Tuesday ended their fast unto death following assurances by the state government.

The People’s Movement against Nuclear Energy convener S p udayakumar on Saturday threatened legal action against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union minister of state in the PMO V Narayanasamy.

People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) had decided to appeal in the Supreme Court against the Madras high court verdict giving the go ahead for the Kudankulam nuclear plant.

The Kudankulam nuclear power plants which are violating many norms should be shutdown immediately, S p udayakumar, convenor of the People’s Movement against Nuclear Energy, said here on Friday.

Even as officials at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant are racing against time to commission the first reactor in two months, the anti-Kudankulam protestors have announced that they would resume their fast from May 1, condemning the state government for not keeping up the assurances it gave during talks last month.

Earlier on the Republic Day, PMANE held a meeting with the community leaders of Tirunelvlei, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari coastal villages to take the call on whether to join AAP.