According to sources from Thoothukudi at a protest in front of the district collector’s office, as a section led by Krishnamoorthy staged a road blockade in the Thoothukudi-Tirunelveli national highway, while the other group led by Prof Fathima Babu abstained from the road blockade and participated in a peace talk with the collector at his office.
Meanwhile notwithstanding their singular demand that the private copper smelter plant should be shut, Krishnamoorthy and Fathima Babu has difference since the beginning of the mass struggle.Earlier dDuring the March 24 protest, when around 20,000 people gathered against Sterlite, Fathima Babu was asked to speak last, despite she being one of the key persons in the anti-Sterlite protest for long since the company was launched in 1996.
Furthermore despite the protest from the section protesting
outside on the road, Fathima Babu agreed for a peace talk with the district
collector, N Venkatesh and superintendent of police, Mahendran. Moreover as
the result of the peace talk with Fathima Babu, the district collector came
down from his office to heed the grievances of the affected people.
