'You’ll get 100 times more property than you have now’
Janardhan Reddy’s audio clip luring Cong MLA is viral
Bengaluru, May 18: Amidst the strategies of Congress-JDS and BJP to get the power in the state, an audio clip, said to be in the voice of Janardhan Reddy, offering position and money to Congress MLA Basana Gouda, has gone viral in the social media.
In this audio, Reddy claimed to have the backing of BJP president Amith Shah. The discussion between two people goes on like this: “old one…it was happened in bad time. Forget it. National president will directly speak to you. Ask what you want. Want power? Ask it. You should grow hundred times. Shivana Gouda Nayak who believed in me joined BJP and improved. You can earn till end as an MLA. Even Raju Gouda was also improved from me. It was happened during our bad time. You can become a minister now. I’ll make arrangement to speak one to one with the party president. You can make property 100 times more than what you have now”, it is said.
But it is said that Basana Gouda has denied it smoothly saying “Sorry..They have given me the ticket when I was in last position. At this situation, I would not betray. I have respect on you”.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Bhopal gas tragedy: Effects of leak seen in next generation of survivors, says ex-forensic doctor
Bhopal (PTI): The effects of poisonous gases that leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal 40 years ago were seen in the next generations of those who survived the tragedy, a former government forensic doctor has said.
At least 3,787 people were killed, and more than five lakh were affected after a toxic gas leaked from the pesticide factory in the city on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
Speaking at an event held by organisations of gas tragedy survivors on Saturday, Dr D K Satpathy, former head of the forensics department of Bhopal's Gandhi Medical College, said he performed 875 post-mortems on the first day of the disaster and witnessed 18,000 autopsies the next five years.
Sathpathy claimed Union Carbide had denied questions about the effects of poisonous gases on unborn children of women survivors and said effects would not cross the placental barrier in the womb in any condition.
He said blood samples of pregnant women who died in the tragedy were examined, and it was found that 50 per cent of poisonous substances found in the mother were also found in the child in her womb.
Children born to surviving mothers had the poisonous substances in their system, and this affected the health of the next generation, Sathpathy claimed and questioned why research on this was stopped.
Such effects will continue for generations, he said.
Satpathy said it was said that MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant, and when it came in contact with water, thousands of gases were formed, and some of these caused cancer, blood pressure and liver damage.
Rachna Dhingra of Bhopal Group for Information and Action said Satpathy, who carried out most autopsies, and other first responders in the 1984 disaster, including the senior doctors in the emergency ward and persons involved in mass burials, narrated their experiences during the event.
Rashida Bee, president of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh, a poster exhibition covering every aspect of the disaster will be held till December 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy.
An anniversary rally will be organised, with focus on global corporate crimes such as industrial pollution and climate change, she said.
