Two women survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy will go on an indefinite hunger strike in New York from May 1 to press Dow Chemicals, the present owner of Union Carbide, to own up responsibility for the tragedy and assume the liabilities.
Champa Devi and Rasheeda Bee will begin a hunger strike near the Wall Street and then move to hold a vigil near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Union Square in downtown Manhattan.
The organisers said their message to the Wall Street would be that Dow Chemicals has huge liabilities and that Indian
Champa Devi and Rasheeda Bee will be in New York till May 5, when they would go to Midland, Michigan, to hold a demonstration near the company headquarters on May 8.
The organisers said the hunger strikers, who would be joined by others for varying periods, would sit near the Gandhi statue only during the day as police has declined to give them camping permission for the night.
Some 8,000 people were killed when a deadly gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in 1984.
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