Bhopal gas tragedy survivors protest outside CM’s house

  • 18/09/2014

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

A group of survivors of the 2004 Bhopal gas tragedy and people living in the areas near the abandoned Union Carbide factory held a protest outside the residence of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister here on Thursday demanding adequate compensation and cleaning up of the factory site. Some protesters resorted to a ‘die-in’ agitation while others tied themselves together with a long chain. Five organisations organised the agitation. They demanded that the government revise the death and injury figures in the curative petition pending before the Supreme Court and intervene in the case relating to the cleaning up of the factory site, being heard in the U.S. Federal Court. “The State government has presented the figure of 15,348 deaths in all its official records, except in the curative petition where it has mentioned a figure of only 5,295 deaths. This needs to be corrected,” the agitators said.