MEDHA PATKAR broke down on Wednesday and wept openly at a Press conference called to give her reaction to the Supreme Court judgement.
"Personally I feel that this movement should not die. We can die but not the movement or let other people end (this movement)," said Medha Patkar as she wept openly.
Medha Patkar further said: "I don't know how we can do this (fight the judgement). I will go back to the people. I have heard people say that they will continue with the movement. It is an anti-people verdict. The project is flawed and won't resolve water
crisis. There is no land for families and lakhs of people especially belonging to the tribal and downtrodden communities will not be rehabilitated because there is no land as accepted by various state governments.
"Only if the court had heard the people and come down to the valley they would have realised what the situation is," she said.
Medha called for immediate intervention by the President of India .She said it was the constitutional obligation of the President to protect the rights of the tribals and downtrodden who have been struggling for the last twelve years for their just demands
to save their fertile and flowering land in the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
She said the President should stay the construction and the consequent displacement of the dam, any further, till the basic issues pertaining to the Sardar Sarovar Project have been resolved.
The verdict has marred any prospects of rational and natural displacement and resettlement process, she said.
At a statement released at the Press conference, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) said that the judgement was illogical, dangerous and anti-people. It further said that "the court seemed to have done a disservice to the Indian Constitution, Indian
democracy and the Indian people". It further called the judgement unjustifiable, reactionary and hence unacceptable. The NBA said that it would fight against the "injustice of the judiciary tooth and nail".
"We call upon the people of India who value democracy and the Constitution to challenge this decision and asked the court to restore peoples right in the Narmada Valley".
