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‘Tamirabharani river let down by everyone'

TIRUNELVELI: The perennial river of Tamirabharani, which enriched both Tamil literature and everyone having close association with the river over the past several centuries, has been let down by all by allowing rampant sand quarrying by the sand mafia on the riverbed, veteran Communist Party of India leader R. Nallakannu has said.

Addressing a public meeting held at Palayamkottai on Tuesday night to confer the title ‘Dharma Thalaivar' on him by ‘Tamirabharani' for having obtained a five-year ban from the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on sand mining on the perennial riverbed, the veteran CPI leader said the rulers, who should be lovers of nature, should strive to conserve natural wealth like the Tamirabharani. Though the perennial river enriched Tamil literature and those living on its banks, nobody, including the government, took efforts to protect it from being murdered by the sand mafia. “It is our prime duty to protect the Tamirabharani from being killed by a group of people with vested interests and hence I argued the case before the court with the objective of conserving it for the future generation. If we fail to conserve natural wealth , our future generation will be affected,” Mr. Nallakannu said.

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