Sivasenapathy leads new environment wing

The DMK on Monday constituted an environment wing and appointed Karthikeya Sivasenapathy as its secretary. A well-known Jallikattu activist, Sivasenapathy, had met DMK president MK Stalin at party headquarters last week.

By :  migrator
Update: 2020-11-23 22:18 GMT
Karthikeya Sivasenapathy with DMK president MK Stalin

Chennai

Senapathy is among the 20 prominent functionaries who would tour the state for the next 75-days, conveying the ideas of Stalin and explaining the failures of the incumbent AIADMK regime to the state people.

Reasoning the formation of the new Environment Wing, Stalin said that there was a request for long to constitute an exclusive party wing to question the approach of the rulers against ecology, land and oceanic resources on issues like deep sea hydrocarbon exploration, oil wells across throughout the state, hydrocarbon projects in Delta districts, Sterlite plant in Thoothukudi and Salem-Chennai eight lane project.

Remarking that Tamil Nadu has been adversely affected by the projects implemented by the government for the benefit of corporate without any concern for the ecology, Stalin said the wing should fight non-violently to safeguard the rights of the people.

The DMK president also appealed to environmental activists, NGOs and district secretaries to extend their best possible cooperation to new secretary Karthikeya Sivasenapathy.

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