The Madhya Pradesh minister for Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation, Babulal Gaur said here on Tuesday that the government of India has never been serious on the issue of Bhopal gas disaster.
Mr Gaur, who is officiating as chief minister in the absence of Shivraj Singh Chouhan now on a foreign tour, was addressing a press conference at his residence. Irrespective of the party heading the government at the Centre — whether the Bharatiya Janata Party or Congress — the fact is that the government of India has not taken the issue of Bhopal gas disaster seriously, he said. Regarding the group of ministers (GoM) on Bhopal that has just been reconstituted, Mr Gaur said that this panel has been formed after a gap of one-and-a-half-year. If the chief judicial magistrate’s order had not come, even this committee would not have been formed, he observed.
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Arjun responsible for Warren exit: Satyavrat
Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand), June 15: Former MP CM Arjun Singh was solely responsible for allowing Warren Anderson to leave Bhopal, senior Congress leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi said on Tuesday.
“On December 8, 1984, Arjun Singh has himself accepted in a press conference that the police had arrested and put in custody Warren Anderson by his order. And on 9th December when he was asked by a press reporter if he had talked to the Centre in this connection, he denied and said this matter was totally under his purview and no need to take permission from the Centre arose,” he said. —PTI