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Don't participate in London Olympics: Aslam Sher Khan
Wednesday December 14, 2011 06:39:10 PM,
IANS
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Bhopal: India should
not participate in the London Olympics-2012 if Dow Chemicals was
retained as the event's sponsor,
newly elected Olympian Association of India (OAI) president Aslam
Sher Khan said Wednesday.
Khan along with survivors of Bhopal Gas Tragedy met Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) acting President Vijay Mahrotra in Delhi and
demanded that it register its protest with the London Olympics
organizing committee over Dow sponsoring the event.
Dow now owns
the defunct Union Carbide plant in Bhopal from where the deadly
MIC gas leaked in 1984, killing thousands of people.
The former Olympian told IANS over phone from Delhi: "Being an
Olympian, I do understand the feeling of players who work hard to
participate in event like Olympics and that how important it is
for their careers."
"But, being a Bhopali, I think India should not participate in
London Olympics if Dow Chemicals should not be removed from
sponsorship," he added.
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