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India asks IOC to drop Dow as Olympic sponsor
Monday February 27, 2012 10:55:14 PM,
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New Delhi: The Indian
government Monday asked International Olympic Committee (IOC)
president Jacques Rogge to remove Dow Chemicals as the sponsor of
the 2012 London Games.
In a letter to the IOC, the sports ministry sought the immediate
removal of Dow, which owns Union Carbide that was responsible for
the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
The sports ministry had to step in after the IOC rejected the
Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) appeal to remove Dow.
In a letter to the IOC president, sports ministry's joint
secretary Rahul Bhatnagar said: "We cherish and celebrate the
noble ideals of the Olympic Movement. India stands firmly
committed to these ideals and the values they promote of
friendship, unity, brotherhood and compassion."
"We strongly believe that there is no better medium than sports to
inculcate and foster the feeling of friendship and solidarity
among the people of the world. This being so, we are dismayed that
the IOC has not respected the sentiments of a large group of
stakeholders, including Olympians, and withdrawn its association
with Dow Chemicals."
The ministry asked the IOC to cancel the sponsorship deal for the
sake of human rights.
"The government of India would therefore strongly urge the IOC to
go beyond lesser considerations and in the larger interest of the
ideals of human rights, compassion and solidarity, immediately
take steps to cancel the sponsorship of Dow Chemicals for the
London Olympics, thereby apart from assuaging the feelings of
millions of people, send a strong message to the world over for
upholding the noble ideals of the Olympic movement," the
ministry's letter said.
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