New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi today criticised the Great Nicobar Island Project, calling it a "grave misadventure" that endangers tribal communities and violates environmental and legal safeguards.
In an article published in an English daily, the Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson said that the project poses an existential threat to the Shompen and Nicobarese tribes and risks irreparable damage to one of India's most unique ecosystems.
"Our collective conscience cannot, and must not, stay silent when the very survival of the Shompen and Nicobarese tribes is at stake. Our commitment to future generations cannot permit this large-scale destruction of a most unique ecosystem," the Rajya Sabha MP said.
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