Silver Jubilee of Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Even after 25 years of the tragedy – the ghost is haunting, the victims are suffering, no one is heeding to their woes. The politicians are busy blaming each other, environmentalists – to drive the point and to say that globalization is danger and to fight against it, media – happy to have some hot topic.
It happened in 1984, December, 4th midnight – at Bhopal – the gas leak that took place at Union Carbide – made 20,000 died and lakhs of people to be impacted with physical/mental disability.
During the past 25 years – many reports came, conflicting each other, safe-guarding one or the other.
· First to be blamed – Arjun Singh, Rajiv Gandhi and bureaucrats at that time. They have arrested Anderson – for name sake, treated him like a royal guest, and sent-off him with full state honors. They say that otherwise the public would have shown anger and would have killed him. The congress is using the same card against Afzal Guru’s execution – saying that the minorities will show anger if they execute Afzal. What sort of impotent and incompetent government – we have.
· On the other hand they are blaming and passing the buck on PV Narasimha Rao – who was no where connected.
· In congress rule nothing can happen (that too such major decision) without the knowledge of Gandhian head’s instructions. Be it Bofors, Submarine, Ayodhya.
· The other parties BJP and communists also behaved like mute-spectators and did not raise any alarm.
· BJP being in power for the last 10 years (in state) also did not do anything – they could have fought this case?
· The environmentalists – side tracking the case as a case of globalization issue rather taking a particular instance and addressing it.
· During 84 – we have only Dumb Darshan (sorry Door Darshan), which is the mouth horn / piece of Government – hence nothing came openly to the public. Now that media is very powerful they are fighting openly. But they need to take it a logical conclusion rather a daily time pass / hot topic for their viewership increase.
· Our PM Manmohan did not raise the issue of hand-over of Anderson to us with Obama, neither Pranab nor Krishna made it a strong point, they should have demanded huge compensation from US government otherwise. But instead – Pranab says that it may lead reduction in foreign investments and ultimately we may suffer.
· But Obama is sucking the blood of BP in the form of Billion dollars as compensation for the oil rig damage happened in Mexico region. This leak killed animals – but not human beings.
In nutshell - it is high time for the Indian Government to come out clean by
· Accepting the fault of Rajiv and Arjun
· By demanding Andersons’ hand-over
· By demanding compensation from US government.
· By apologizing to the Nation in general and to the victims in particular for the handling of the whole episode.