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Bail for Union Carbide chief challenged

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NK SINGH Bhopal: A local lawyer has moved the court seeking cancellation of the absolute bail granted to Mr. Warren Ander son, chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation, whose Bhopal pesticide plant killed over 2,000 persons last December. Mr. Anderson, who was arrested here in a dramatic manner on December 7 on several charges including the non-bailable Section 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), was released in an even more dramatic manner and later secretly whisked away to Delhi in a state aircraft. The local lawyer, Mr. Quamerud-din Quamer, has contended in his petition to the district and sessions judge of Bhopal, Mr. V. S. Yadav, that the police had neither authority nor jurisdiction to release an accused involved in a heinous crime of mass slaughter. If Mr. Quamer's petition succeeds, it may lead to several complications, including diplomatic problems. The United States Government had not taken kindly to the arrest of the head of one of its most powerful mul...
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Jana Sangh’s Patna session, 1969

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Jana Sangh election symbol

NK SINGH

The main outcome of the 16th session of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh was perhaps the sharpening of the Madhok-Vajpayee rift. The first indication of the controversy appeared in the working committee meeting when it failed to adopt the draft resolution on the political situation, even after eight hours of discussion, as it was sharply divided over the policy to adopted towards the Congress.

BalrajMadhok group felt that JS was neared to the Syndicate Congress and an alliance should be formed it. Atal Bihari Vajpayee group maintained that there was very little difference between the two Congresses before and after the split. The working committee had to redraft the official resolution.

The political resolution called for an all-out anti-Communist front and a determined political offensive against the Indira Gandhi government.

The economic resolution has similarities on too many points with those of the ruling Congress, organisation Congress and other parties like the PSP and SSP. Madhok said: “In our love for being called progressive, it is necessary that we should not lose our distinct identity.”

The JS called for rapid land reforms, ceiling on land holdings, ensuring the rights of tenants and share-croppers, upliftment of backward classes and so on.

Excerpts from Frontier 17 January 1970


A report on 16th session of Bharatiya Jana Sangh held at Patna in 1969, by NK Singh, published in Frontier of 17 January 1970. P1
Frontier 17 January 1970 P1

A report on 16th session of Bharatiya Jana Sangh held at Patna in 1969, by NK Singh, published in Frontier of 17 January 1970. P2
Frontier 17 January 1970 P2

A report on 16th session of Bharatiya Jana Sangh held at Patna in 1969, by NK Singh, published in Frontier of 17 January 1970. P2
Frontier 17 January 1970 P3

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