Hyderabad, Jun 11: Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary A B Bardhan today demanded immediate steps for extradition of then Union Carbide Chief Warren Anderson, the main accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy in which around 20,000 people lost their lives.Participating in a meet-the-press programme organised by the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists(APUWJ) here, Mr Bardhan said the entire country was shocked over the judgement on the tragedy whose effects were still on thousands of people even now.''There is not only delay in justice, but it (verdict) is mockery and denial of justice even 26 years after the incident.'' He also said the Centre should initiate steps to book all those responsible for the incident. The persons responsible -- both at the Centre and in the state government for the safe passage of Anderson soon after the incident-- should be booked, he added.Mr Bardhan alleged that ''the Congress was expert in finding a scapegoat and leaving the main accused free in the criminal incidents.'' He said ''it is very difficult for a Chief Minister of state alone to allow the accused to leave the country without the nod of the Centre.'' The Centre was not pressing the United States for extradition of the accused in several cases, including the present case, in view of its political and economic relations with that country, he alleged. He said the relation between the two countries was secondary and the first and foremost important thing was safeguarding the interests of the people of India.
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