Bhopal Gas plant tragedy: Did Rajiv Gandhi call Arjun Singh to set free Warren Anderson?

New Delhi: June 09, 2010 Did Rajiv GandhiRajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India call Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun SinghArjun Singh to set free Warren Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Union Carbide? The question is haunting the political galleries in New Delhi. Whispers in the political circle sounds like this. Moti Singh, the then collector and district magistrate of Bhopal told news media today that the then Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh ordered him to arrange for safe passage to Warren Anderson, CEO and Chairman, Union Carbide after Bhopal gas tragedy. Warren Anderson was arrested just after the Bhopal Gas tragedy. Moti Singh told that he arranged for his bail which an official of Union Carbide provided. He took him from the jail and arranged for him a journey to Airport of Bhopal. A Madhya Pradesh Government state plane carried Warren Anderson to Delhi. Warren Anderson left for New York, America soon after and never returned despite promise to Indian court. It is the talk of the town that Arjun Singh, the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh initiated his freedom after a phone call from Delhi. Arjun Singh is silent on this matter. He does not want to name the phone caller. It is said that he is under pressure from the Congress party High Command. This puts the needle of suspicion to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It is worth noted that former CBI joint director, B R Lal told news media that the CBI got a letter from the Ministry of external Affairs not to pursue extradition of Warren Anderson. Rajiv Gandhi kept charge of External Affair Minister between October 31, 1984 and September 24, 1985 as Prime Minister of India.

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