Similarly, during the Manmohan Singh years, several thousand people in the southern state of Tamil Nadu were held for "waging war against the state" because they had protested against the installation of a nuclear power plant in their area.
The protesters were worried that a nuclear accident would wipe out their lives and livelihoods. The state, perhaps acting with the benefit of intelligence information, apparently felt the protests had been externally instigated.
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