Bhopal Gas Tragedy And BJP

JUNE 7, 2010, marks a milestone in the history of Indian democracy. On that day a trial court in Bhopal pronounced its verdict in the case relating to the gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital on the night of December 2-3, 1984. The world's worst industrial disaster, killed at least 20,000 people and left thousands maimed and helpless. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Mohan P. Tiwari read out the nearly 100 pages of his judgment, convicting seven accused, in two hours.

One should understand the two most important issues:

1) Whether the Bhopal plant was a defective one run without reasonable care, which resulted in the leakage of poisonous gas

2) Whether the accused were guilty of not informing the local people about the remedial precautions

Before pointing Anderson one should point finger on then chairman of Union Carbide India Limited and our very own Mr. Keshu Mahindra. Anderson was an outsider but Keshu Mahindra should had done something for the Indian nationals as he was also one of them. After doing such a disastrous thing along with W. Anderson he was nominated by the BHARTIYA JANTA PARTY (BJP) for the Padma-bhushan (India's third highest civilian honour) in 2002 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime-minister of India. This is what one should expect from BJP. They were giving the honour to an accused, what a true nationalist party they are!

And in Gujarat where the BJP goverment is headed by their pseudo-superhero Narendra Modi, had signed a deal with the Dow Chemicals (which is the parent company of the Union Carbide) in 2008. So, the only problem I have is the justice has been demanded by a party which is not capable of providing justice to those who had been killed in Gujarat. The party which is responsible for Babri Mosque demolition, Kandhar incident where they are forced by some terrorists to free their colleagues.I m not saying that congress is not responsible. They are responsible because they are not able to provide sufficient compensation from the union carbide and giving money from their own. They are responsible because they are making efforts for providing the justice to the victims.

Extradition of Anderson will not give anything since he is no more an employee of Union Carbide and secondly what will you get by trialling a 90 years old person, which will take another 20-30 years by the time he will gone. The government of India should move from this incident and do those things which will benefit the people of Bhopal, which they are doing now.