Kasargode, Sunday 17 April 2011: Attacking the Union Government for the ‘antipeople’ stand adopted by it on the endosulfan issue, environmentalist Vandana Shiva has said that India was singularly blocking the proposed global ban on the pesticide.
Vandana Shiva said that Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was not ready to ban endosulfan. “Sharad Pawar should not be the Agriculture Minister of India. It is because of the fact that Pawar is corrupt that he had to back out from becoming a member in the committee to frame the draft of the ‘Lokpal Bill.’
Sharad Pawar lied in Parliament that most of the states had asked him not to impose ban on endosulfan. He was hiding the fact that Kerala had already banned endosulfan,” she said. She emphasised that endosulfan will be banned and it is just a matter of time.
On the Jindal Steel sponsoring Rs 25 lakh to ‘India Against Corruption’ (IAC), under the aegis of which Anna Hazare staged hunger strike recently, she said that “a clean cause should have clean means” as well. However, Vandana Shiva said that she had full faith in the integrity of Anna Hazare.
Praising the efforts of the Kerala government in its fight against the deadly pesticide, Vandana Shiva said that the Kerala Government headed by V S Achuthanandan had been doing everything possible to fight against endosulfan.

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