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Olympics boycott is on the table, claims Bhopal NGO
Monday February 27, 2012 06:33:50 PM,
IANS
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Bhopal: Union sports
ministry officials have assured them that India was all prepared
to boycott the London Olympics over the Dow Chemicals' sponsorship
issue and was only waiting for the International Olympics
Committee (IOC) response, Bhopal gas tragedy survivors'
representatives said here Monday.
Led by five organisations, the gas tragedy survivors met sports
ministry officials Monday and pressed for the boycott of the
London Olympics.
Earlier in the day, they also met and presented a memorandum to
officials of the British high commission and asked them to
intervene on the London Olympics sponsorship issue.
"We met Marcus Winsley, Director, Press and Communications, UK
high commission. He promised to give a response to the memorandum
and also said that he will deliver the petition to the relevant
authorities in the UK," Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for
Information and Action told IANS over the phone from New Delhi.
The memorandum was presented to the British high commission by
five gas survivors' organisations and carried more than 20,000
signatures from a campaign, started by British nurse Lorraine
Close on Change.org, that calls on London Games organisers to drop
Dow as a sponsor.
"We met Rahul Bhatnagar, the joint secretary in the sports
ministry. He assured us that the Olympics boycott is on their
table and that they are just waiting for a reply from the IOC, to
whom they have written a letter," Dhingra said.
"He even said that like gas victims, it is their (ministry's)
concern too that Dow is sponsoring the Olympics," the activist
added.
Dow Chemicals acquired the Union Carbide, whose subsidiary Union
Carbide India ran a pesticide plant in Bhopal where gas leak on
Dec 3-4, 1984, killed an estimated 25,000 people in the worst
industrial disaster in the world.
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