Accusing political parties in Kerala of misleading people on safety of Mullaperiyar Dam, DMK on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to “desist” them from engaging in a “false propaganda” and await final orders of the Supreme Court on it.
In a memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister, DMK MPs said his intervention will help allay fears of the people of Kerala on the safety of the dam built in 1895 and “put an end to the animosity created among the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.”
The DMK delegation also sought an all-India ban on the screening of the multi-lingual film ‘Dam 999’
The film is a story of a dam built during colonial rule that is cracking.
“...Kerala had been consistently making false propaganda about the safety of the dam through media and other means. The recent projection of a movie by name ‘Dam 999’ is part of such false propaganda,” the memorandum alleged.
The DMK MPs alleged that political parties in Kerala were “deliberately misinforming” the people of Kerala about the safety of the dam, “thereby cresting fear in the minds of the people, which will in turn harness hatred and mistrust among the people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.”
They pointed that in 2004, the apex court had ruled that the dam is in safe condition and water can be stored beyond the level which was thereto stated. The order was passed on the basis of reports received from the Central Water Commission.
But Kerala had not accepted the order of the Supreme Court, leading Tamil Nadu to go back to the apex court for redressal, the two-page memorandum said.
