The Koodankulam nuclear plant impasse - who is to blame?

For the past three months, the Koodankulam plant has been very much in the news for all the wrong reasons. The unfortunate part of the news is that the parties who could end the impasse - the central and the state governments, that is - do not seem to take any care in ensuring that the plant starts. Despite warnings from scientists about the dangers of not starting the plant, they seem to have their own ideas. The Centre is atleast doing some thing by inviting Shri Kalam to allay fears, making eminent scientists speak on the subject etc. The fact that the state government pretends to be oblivious of what is happening is too much to take, given the less-said-the-better power situation prevailing in the state. What beats one is the fact a splinter group with the help of certain Church groups with hideous funding sources is able to hold the entire state, the entire country to ransom, which says a lot about ours being a banana republic. After years of planning and commissioning, the fact that the so called protests have sprouted just on the eve of the plant going critical says it all about the "public cause" of the protests. The media sending confusing signals also is adding to the fire. There has been no hard hitting "movement"-like editorials by the media for the plant to open. Tough, hard action is what is the need of the hour. The ball is in the state's court. Will it call the group's bluff?