Do not trust false propaganda against hydrocarbon project: BJP

BJP national Secretary H Raja today said the Centre was ready to reconsider its proposal to establish hydrocarbon exploration and extraction project in Neduvasal in Pudukottai district if public felt that the project was against the interests of farmers.
He appealed to the farmers to "not to get carried away" by the "false propaganda" by Left parties and some vested interests.
"Some vested interests and Left parties were opposing and indulged in spreading false propaganda against the project, which would help to produce clean and green energy, conceptualised by previous UPA government," Raja told reporters here.
Stating that this was one of the 31 projects across the country and only one in Tamil Nadu to generate green energy without affecting environment, Raja said the Centre was ready to shelve it, if the farmers feel it would affect their livelihood.

He said that he along with experts will be going to Neduvasal on February 28 to meet the farmers and local people to elicit their opinion.
On opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Isha Yoga Centre here to unveil the 112-foot conceptualised 'Face of Adhiyogi' here, Raja termed it as anti-Hindu.
"This was purely anti-Hindu agitation by atheists and Left parties, he said.