BJP’s Karnataka bandh gets poor response
Bengaluru, May 28: The Karnataka bandh called by the BJP demanding waiver of farmers loans on Monday, received poor response across the state.
Though the BJP has called for voluntary bandh in all districts except Bengaluru, general public, business establishments, auto and taxi drivers and transport companies have not supported the bandh. It was a complete failure. As the MLAs and MPs tried to close the shops and business establishments in Bidar, Kalburgi, Bellary, Chitradurga, Koppal, Mysuru and other districts, the police took them into custody. MPs Pratap Simha, Bhagwanth Khuba, Karadi Sanganna and others were taken into custody, against this, the BJP workers shouted slogans and staged protests.
Indira canteen stoned
Miscreants stoned Indira canteen near the Union Park in Chitradurga city on Monday. As a result, the window panes were damaged. Police have arrested three BJP workers following the incident.
Threat to hotel
In Yadagiri, BJP MLA Venkata Siva Reddy went to a hotel and threatened the hotel owner to close it. When the public opposed it, the MLA has reportedly said that everybody should follow what he said as he is the MLA of the constituency.
DySP assaulted?
As the DySP has taken an auto which was using the loud speakers without permission, into his custody, MP Karadi Sanganna has attacked the officer and obstructed him from discharging his duty. The BJP workers who rushed to the police station engaged in verbal duals with the police personnel, due to which tension prevailed for some time.
Schools and colleges, government offices, banks, factories and other establishments have remained open as usual. There was no problem in transportation facility. As a result, the people did not feel the heat of BJP-sponsored bandh in the state.
Week deadline for loan waiver
Meanwhile, BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa said that the Karnataka bandh called by the party demanding farmers loan waiver was successful. The government has tried to suppress the BJP leaders who have been protesting for farmers loans waiver, through police. The government should take a decision within a week on waiver off loans, he said.
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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.
