Rajiv decided to let Anderson go, hints PC Alexander
(Once again cheated, Rajiv had no concern for the victims
& people of India Disgraceful
act by Rajiv/ But he soon got bail and flew to Delhi in a Madhya Pradesh government
aircraft.)
Former
principal secretary of late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
- P.C. Alexander-finally broke his silence on Warren
Anderson's escape from the country barely days after the
world's biggest industrial
disaster in Bhopal on December 2, 1984.
Speaking to Headlines Today on Friday, Alexander hinted that Rajiv Gandhi had taken
the decision to let off Anderson, the then chairman of Union Carbide Corporation.
He said that all the senior officials at that time were in the dark
about the release of Anderson. Rajiv Gandhi and Arjun Singh, who then was
the chief minister of
Madhya Pradesh, were directly in touch with each other over the
issue.
In
a crucial meeting called by the prime minister, Arjun Singh was present before
any government official. After the meeting was over, Rajiv Gandhi and
Arjun Singh spent some time alone, Alxander recollected.
Narrating about that crucial meeting held in the wee hours on December
10, 1984, Alexander said, "Everybody left one-by-one. I being in-charge
of the secretariat of the prime minister had to stay back and deal with
administrative problems which required urgent orders of the PM."
"No Anderson was discussed there in the meeting. I honestly do not know
what eventually happened between the chief minister and the prime
minister. Definitely they (Arjun and Rajiv) must have met, otherwise
Arjun Singh could not have been there. He could not have known that
there was going to be a CCPA meeting. His presence was needed. Probably
he was asked by the PM to be there."
"So whether they decided at their level to release him... or who decided
to release him without any condition or judicial process... Some person
asked me this question, what was the condition under which he was
allowed to go. I said I did not know anything because none of us
discussed Anderson business. Anderson arrived just two days before we
met at the CCPA. This meeting took place at 3 am on 10 (December)."
"I do not know whether there was a meeting between the chief minister
and the prime minister before or after the CCPA. At that time of the
night, for both of them to be present first of all PM's permission is
necessary. These are very high-level secret meetings. Only these
five ministers and two officials were allowed. Nobody else was allowed."
"I was not in the picture about his arrest so that's how I was not there
in the picture about his release also. I do not know if the PM had
given his views or his consent to Arjun Singh's proposal. I think they
were decided. I don't know the exact time when Anderson was left in
Delhi in the state plan and then he took off from there."
"He
could not have left Bhopal without the knowledge and help of the state
government authorities. This is my inference that in a situation
like this the chief minister had really been involved in the decision at
whatever level it was taken. The decision could have been taken by the
prime minister in consultation with the chief minister. Or, it can be put
the other way."
Making Rajiv Gandhi's role more critical in the vital decision to free
Anderson, Alexander said, "When the senior authorities are present,
that is the prime minister, naturally he would have taken the final
decision or he would have agreed to the suggestion."
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/101133/rajiv-decided-to-let-anderson-go,-hints-pc-alexander.html?complete=1
MP CM asks Arjun to explain Anderson bail
Bhopal June 10, 2010
Madhya Pradesh
Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan on
Thursday asked Congress
leader Arjun Singh to come clear on how former Union Carbide
chairman Warren Anderson got bail after his arrest in Bhopal in 1984 and
was sent off to Delhi.
In a letter to Singh, Chouhan said that the nation was waiting for the
last three days for him to reveal the name of the person who asked him
to arrange the quick exit of Anderson from Bhopal.
Singh was the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh
at the time of the 1984 Bhopal
gas tragedy. Anderson
arrived in Bhopal on December 7,
1984 after the gas leak and was arrested. But he soon got bail
and flew to Delhi in a Madhya Pradesh government aircraft.
Moti Singh, the district magistrate of Bhopal
in 1984, has claimed that instructions to give bail to Anderson came
from the chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/101059/Headlines
Today Top Stories/MP+CM+asks+Arjun+to+explain+Anderson+bail.html?page=0
Thanks & Regards,
Sudhir Srinivasan
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