New Delhi, August 11: Breaking his silence, Arjun Singh Wednesday appeared to point fingers at the late P V Narasimha Rao in the exit of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in the wake of Bhopal gas disaster in 1984, thereby giving a clean chit to the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
“The Chief Secretary informed me that there have been persistent calls for granting bail to Mr Anderson from Home Ministry officials in Delhi,” said Singh, who was then the Madhya Pradesh state Chief Minister, pointing fingers at Rao, who was then the Indian Home Minister.
Singh, who did not not share a good relationship with Rao during his days as HRD Minister in Rao’s Cabinet at the Centre later, said he had ordered the arrest of Anderson and wanted it to be recorded so that he could be produced before courts when needed.
–Agencies