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India should not participate in London Olympics Games: CPI-M

A strong demand was made in the Rajya Sabha that India should not participate in London Olympics Games as the International Olympic Committee has rejected its calls to drop Dow Chemical, responsible for Bhopal gas tragedy, as sponsor of Games.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Prasanta Chatterjee (CPI-M) said Dow Chemical, which is sponsoring London Olympics has refused to take responsibility of the Bhopal Gas tragedy in which 3,787 persons were killed on the spot in 1984.

Chatterjee said Dow Chemicals took over the company responsible for gas leak and the victims of the tragedy have appealed to the government to boycott the Games.

Appeals were also made to International Olympic Committee to scrap Dow Chemical from sponsorship of the Games but in vain, Chatterjee said adding, "We should stand by the victims of the tragedy."

Some parties including BJP associated with the demand. Dow Chemical currently owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the tragedy.

Raising another issue, Avinash Rai Khanna (BJP) demanded that the tenure of the historic Amarnath Yatra should not be cut short on the pretext of terrorist threats and proper steps should be initiated to provide facilities to pilgrims and those sponsoring community food.

He said lakhs of pilgrims undertake this religious tourism every year from June to August which generates revenue of crores of rupees and employment to people but the state government's attitude was not positive for Yatra.
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