Cyanide in Bhopal gas leak?
A news report quoting the RSS has alleged that "Indian politicians and authorities display cowardly attitude in dealing with cases involving foreign companies". RSS also said that the successive Governments had tried to hide the fact that the gas leak from offending company Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) contained cyanide in it.
The RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser' in its editorial 'Voiceless victims of Bhopal gas leak and insensitive politicians', quoted a German toxicologist Max Daunderer, who was present in Bhopal on December 4, 1984, as saying that he had successfully administered the only known cyanide antidote--sodium thiosulphate--doses to a few of the gas victims, thereby proving the presence of cyanide in the leaked gas.
The editorial also said the toxicologist was called to Delhi by the Central Public Health Department, and upon his arrival he was told to leave India immediately failing which he would be arrested.
Dr Daunderer had made arrangements for 20,000 doses of medicine prescribed by him but it did not reach the victims, it stated. ''The initial report of the ICMR had mentioned cyanide poisoning but later corrected its report,'' it said.
The Organiser also carried a two-page investigative report by its editor R Balashankar exposing ''the Congress' conspiracy with UCIL to deny justice to Bhopal gas victims.''
The RSS weekly also did not spare the role of the BJP as a ruling party in Bhopal and Delhi during the last 26 years and said both Congress and non-Congress Governments never tried to track those sources that pulled strings from behind with 'utter lack of conscience'.
The editorial also took into cognisance the statements of two Congress MPs and a senior doctor that the tank from which the lethal gas leaked contained 'some new chemical' which either went out of control or were deliberately leaked on the poor people in the area as part of 'diabolical chemical warfare experiment'.
''While this may sound far-fetcheed, the activities of the the UCIL research and development centre in Bhopal do raise suspicion,'' the paper said.
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