Click to play videoNew Delhi: The fight for justice by survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy is yielding no result. They took a long walk of 800 kilometers to meet the Prime Minister but more than a month on, no one's come calling. So now they are heading to his place.
The night of December 2 1984 has stretched into 23 years. The Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world's worst industrial disasters, lives on in the minds of people and in their bodies.
Yasmeen, daughter of gas affected parents, says "There are children who when they smile, we do not know whether they are smiling or not who are not normal."
They survived the night of December 2 only to spend the rest of it in hospital beds, waiting rooms, or simply watching close ones waste away.
Hajira Bi says, "We escaped with two kids left one behind that kid is incapable. His childhood was spent in the hospital.”
Hajira is one of the 55 Bhopalis who have walked 800 kilometers to the Capital the second time in three years.
Activist Nityanand says, "We has walked in 2006 two years have passed and we are yet to receive even a drop of water."
A group of ministers on Bhopal was set up in 1991 to address the concerns of the victims.
It is now headed by Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh and has Ram Vilas Paswan, Kamal Nath, Oscar Fernandes and Hans Lal Bhardwaj among members.
It is to this group that the survivors are now appealing. They're asking for an empowered commission on Bhopal and the need for legal action against Dow Chemicals.
They have walked 800 km twice over with their demands of justice and water - just a measure of the distance that India has to travel before it declares itself as modern responsible industrial nation.
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