Bhopal Gas victims start indefinite hunger strike

New Delhi, Apr 11 (UNI) Three victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas leak disaster and an equal number of their supporters began an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar here today to press the Government to accept their six-point charter of demands.

They are part of a 46-member team that had marched from Bhopal to Delhi last month.

The protestors said they started the protest on having failed to move the Government on their demands and in securing an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

They are demanding clean drinking water, clean up of the contaminated site, a coordinating agency with power and finances to implement medical and economic rehabilitation programmes, curbs on Dow Chemicals' (of which Union carbide is a subsidiary now) business in India and speedy prosecution of the accused.

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