The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) will cancel the proposed nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad. This will be the party’s first decision after coming to power in Haryana. INLD candidate from Fatehabad Balwan Singh Daulatpuria and former MLA Ran Singh Beniwal stated this here today while addressing people in Khajuri, Kajalheri and other neighbouring Bishnois-dominated villages. They said their party considered this plant a potent threat to the safety of this area. Daulatpuria said the project had come to Fatehabad as the government was inimical to this area. “Development projects, such as AIIMS, medical colleges, universities and flyovers, have been given to Rohtak and Jhajjar, but a project “capable of mass destruction” has been thrust upon people of this constituency,” Daulatpuria said. He said farmers of this area had to carry out a prolonged agitation against this plant during which three farmers lost their lives. He said farmers’ voice was suppressed by use of force by the government. Daulatpuria and Beniwal maintained that INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala had opposed this project from the very beginning and he had categorically announced that the nuclear power plant would not be allowed to come up at Gorakhpur. He said the party would set up this project in some other thinly populated area where enough water was available for the project. Beniwal said all norms had been bypassed by the state government to set up the plant here in Fatehabad, as the project could not be established in a densely populated area and fertile land could not be acquired for this purpose.