The test burning of the hazardous waste of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has set off a political row between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh. The BJP blames the Congress for not taking the toxic waste problem seriously during its regime, while the Congress attacks the BJP state government's present management of the disposal process.
The incineration involves the burning of 337 tonnes of poisonous waste at a plant in Pithampur, about 230 kilometers from Bhopal. The waste has been lying at the Union Carbide plant complex since the devastating gas leak in 1984, which killed thousands and left the local residents with long-term health problems.
Environmentalists and survivor groups have been worried about the burning process, suspecting that it might release poisonous pollutants into the atmosphere and continue to contaminate the environment. They advocate for alternative disposal methods that are safer and more effective.
The political rhetoric concerning the waste's disposal shows how the perennial question of handling the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster has long been there with both camps refusing to turn against the management and cleanup operations but instead trading recrimination back and forth
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