Lakshmana Venkat Kuchi

A person sitting in an exalted Constitutional position needs to weigh in the words he speaks carefully or else can face legal trouble like Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi is facing now for his controversial remarks on the protesters at the Tuticorin Sterlite plant and anti-nuclear plant stir at Kudankulam. 

The charges he is facing from the person who led and motivated the anti-nuke protesters, anti-nuclear activist, SP Uday Kumar, are that the governor had insulted hundreds of protesters at when he remarked that they were funded by foreign countries. 

The anti-nuclear activist sent a legal notice to the governor through his advocate M Radhakrishnan in which he alleged that the governor had insulted the protesters.

In the notice sent on April 8, Dayanara said, “By calling the protest foreign-funded, the Governor insulted thousands of men and women who participated in the protest in the public interest. There is no basis whatsoever for the Governor’s assertion that the said protest was funded by foreign countries.”

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The notice called the remarks false and said it had the intention to harm the reputation of Uday Kumar. The notice also mentioned that the remarks of Ravi lowered the moral character and credit of Uday Kumar. The legal notice sought amends to the statement – against Uday Kumar and the protesters who participated in the protests – by RN Ravi.

“My client hopes that you, as the Governor of Tamil Nadu, will immediately make appropriate amends to the said false statement made against my client who was the coordinator of the protest against Kurakula Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu and all those protestors against Kurakula Nuclear Power Plant, and will not drive my client to have recourse to law, ” the notice said.

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The governor had during an interaction with civil service aspirants at Raj Bhavan on April 6 held that the Kurakula and Sterlite protests were funded by foreign countries, drawing sharp responses from political parties and activists alike. 

Leaders from Dravid Mun Netra Kashagan-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) said that they would stage a protest against Tamil Nadu Governor RN in front of the Raj Bhavan on April 12.

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