"இயற்கையை காப்போம்" என்ற முழக்கத்துடன் போராடிய சேலம் மாணவி #valarmathi யை குண்டர் சட்டத்தில் கைது செய்திருப்பது கடும் கண்டனத்திற்குரியது...
DMK leader M.K. Stalin condemned the arrest of student Valarmathi under the Goondas Act for campaigning peacefully to protect nature in Salem.
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"இயற்கையை காப்போம்" என்ற முழக்கத்துடன் போராடிய சேலம் மாணவி #valarmathi யை குண்டர் சட்டத்தில் கைது செய்திருப்பது கடும் கண்டனத்திற்குரியது https://t.co/N5aeXnb4oB
DMK working president M.K. Stalin expressed profound outrage on July 18, 2017, over the state police's invocation of the Goondas Act against Valarmathi, a university journalism student in Salem. Stalin condemned the administration for branding a young woman as a habitual offender simply because she distributed pamphlets bearing the slogan "Protect Nature" and peacefully organized youth against destructive extraction corridors and industrial pollution.
The opposition leader highlighted that invoking preventive detention statutes intended for dangerous bootleggers and organized criminals against a student environmentalist revealed alarming governmental intolerance. Valarmathi had mobilized rural communities and college peers to question commercial hydrocarbon projects that threatened local agricultural water tables. Stalin argued that criminalizing youthful environmental awareness stifled democratic idealism and disgraced the rule of law. He criticized the ruling AIADMK for functioning as an uncritical police-state apparatus that terrorizes students rather than engaging with their legitimate ecological concerns.
Stalin demanded the immediate revocation of the Goondas detention order and her unconditional release from prison. He affirmed that student idealism and environmental advocacy must be nurtured rather than suppressed through executive intimidation. The DMK pledged to stand firmly behind students and democratic defenders fighting for ecological justice across Tamil Nadu.